Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Inspirational Quotes (4)

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.