Elizabeth Blackwell > Quotes

“None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.”
― Elizabeth Blackwell, While Beauty Slept

“reached. Rows of wooden shacks lined a single,”
― Elizabeth Blackwell, Red Mistress

“scared me. Before I learned what it really means to live with ghosts. Had the dream expressed an unconscious wish? I thought Lakecrest and I had come to a truce, that my feelings had dulled with time. Maybe I still hated it—more than I’d ever admit. I made my way slowly down the hall, avoiding the squeakiest floorboards. I peeked into Stella’s room, which was dimly illuminated by a night-light in the shape of a twirling ballerina. My daughter”
― Elizabeth Blackwell, In the Shadow of Lakecrest

“Whatever such rites entailed, the madness of Dionysus was widely accepted as a religious practice. Indeed, it was one of the few ways women were able to obtain a measure of freedom in an otherwise limited public sphere.   Was”
― Elizabeth Blackwell, In the Shadow of Lakecrest