Elizabeth Blackwell
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"Elizabeth Blackwell" was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in UK/Britain. Her sister Emily Blackwell/Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree.

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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil . . . which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist . . .

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.

We've got four seniors this year who are giving us some good leadership. We lost three, but we gained four. And we've got some younger players who are hitting the ball just as well as anybody.

She played fast-pitch in the spring, and she wasn't going to play slow-pitch.

We got off to a slow start, ... It took us three innings to get us going. This is a better Natchez than we expected.