"To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown."

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Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

Elizabeth Blackwell

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“When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.”
“My family and my friends inspire me.”

Source : "Chasing Life Actress Italia Ricci: Uncertainty and Sticking It Out". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“I need my career. That's what validates me.”

Source : "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.
“I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated!”
“I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.”
“Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.”
“Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.”
“It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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