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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

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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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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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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. – Hugh Miller

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I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. – Kevin Spacey

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