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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. John Greenleaf Whittier		Thursday Jan 01, 2026
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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. Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD

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	Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD
	Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 - 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain. Read More

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

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.

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.

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.

[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.