Rachel Clarke

“Women, as we know, used to be judged incapable of medicine. That changed in 1876, when, after a tenacious fight led by Britain’s first female doctor, Elizabeth Garret Anderson, the law was changed to prohibit women’s exclusion from medical schools. Now, more than 140 years later, female medical students outnumber men. Yet, according to Lawson, our predisposition to avoid antisocial hours and put family before career means we are more”
― Rachel Clarke, Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story

“No other part of the human body comes close to matching the metaphorical richness of the human heart. Hearts sing, soar, race, burn, break, bleed, swell, hammer and melt. They can be won or lost, cut or trampled, and hewn from oak or stone or gold. They have a temperature – warm or cold – and can be squeezed, can sink or be thrown away. They are vessels filled not only with blood, but with our sorrows, hopes and fears.”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart