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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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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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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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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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Ive always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think hes a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood. – Tyler Perry

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I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people – who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. – Duane Chapman

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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats. – Hideki Tojo

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There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. Its not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art. – Danny Aiello

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. – Henry Louis Gates

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