Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes

United Kingdom, Physician
June 9, 1836 – December, 17, 1917.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.

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 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
- Women
- Nursing
- Crimea
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
- Pain
- Anxiety
- Duty
I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- I Think
- Subject
- In Time
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
- Broken
- Record
- Long Time