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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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Virtue
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I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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sad
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The idea of winning a doctors degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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Graduation
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Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. – Chinese Proverb

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This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. – William Lyon Phelps

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respect

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want. – DMX

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When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them. – Rene Redzepi

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