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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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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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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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There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think its better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you dont know very well. – Mary Ellen Mark

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I even believe if youre killing a team, you shouldnt stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if youre getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. – Sue Wicks

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a mans self-respect is a sin. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing cant be like any other authors really. – Paul Kane

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