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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

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Elizabeth Blackwell
Age: 89 †
Born: 1821
Born: February 3
Died: 1910
Died: May 31
Essayist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
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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.
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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.
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I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.
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I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.
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Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
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