6+ Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Elizabeth Garrett Anderson quotes and sayings.

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

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

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

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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

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