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Quote by Elizabeth Blackwell
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life

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

Other quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell

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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Elizabeth Blackwell
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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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respect
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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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When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or 31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldnt keep up the payments. – Tom Glazer

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sad

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the 70s for research. Theyre the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says theyve seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. – Kate Hudson

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I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, thats real. Mistreatment of other people because Im better than you are is such a sad part of the world. – Melissa Leo

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sad

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. – Henry Ward Beecher

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