The Doctors Blackwell Quotes

Elizabeth Blackwell, “with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value,” found herself in the “unknown world” of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor—the first American woman to have become a doctor.

She had never wanted to be a man—she wanted, as a woman, to enjoy the same level of respect and freedom men took for granted.

Sniffing away vision clouded by emotion, he turned to Longhurst. “Whatever fate befalls her, I’ll visit upon your bones threefold, you mark me.” That taken care of, he slammed out of the office, but not before hearing Lorelai’s sweet apologies. “Do pardon him, Doctor, he really is working on making fewer death threats on my behalf.” “It’s all right,” Dr. Longhurst replied. “I’m physician to many of Blackwell’s associates and their wives and children. That isn’t even the worst threat I’ve received this week. And here I am. Still alive.

came home so happy and encouraged I blessed God most heartily and wanted to throw my arms round him and mend his stockings’.[21]

The scandal of a cross-dressing woman, apparently, was nothing compared to the horror of a female in the lecture room.

Both Fuller and Blackwell wanted to see women gain more opportunities and influence without taking any away from men.

Lizzie recognized the England Blackwell described—one where society limited women to a mind-numbing existence as baby factories and household managers.