Top 15 Elizabeth Garrett Quotes
#1. By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
Wilferd Peterson
#2. 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.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#3. 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.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#5. If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
Pete Wentz
#6. 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.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#7. 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.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#8. I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
Damien Chazelle
#9. Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. We don't believe the truth but believe what we continuously hear.
Sunday Adelaja
#12. The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
Adrienne Rich
#13. 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.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#15. One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.
M.M. Scott
