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[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.

Source: Letter, 17 Aug 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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