I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I … - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that. ' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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