Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes

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

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

- 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