5 ordspråk av Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson föddes den
9 juni 1836 och dog den 17 december
1917 - sister of Millicent Fawcett, 1st woman mayor in England (Aldeburgh)
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Hitta foto... 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.
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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.
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I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
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When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
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