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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

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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.

Source: Letter, 15 Jun 1860, to her Emily Davies; found at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WandersonE.htm.
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, (Jun 9 1836-1917), English physician; She was the first English doctor, 1870s, and the first female mayor, 1908; worked to admit women to professional education, especially in medicine.


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