The idea of winning a doctor's 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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  2. You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for. - Deb Caletti

  3. You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push. - Carrie Ryan

  4. Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

  5. She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. - Jonathan Safran Foer

More Quotes By Elizabeth Blackwell
  1. Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

  2. To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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