Elizabeth Blackwell once said, "The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me" (Women's History). Blackwell believed it was "immoral to deny the medical profession to women without any reasonable justification" (Crovitz 400). Her father sent an example for believing that his daughters deserved the same education as his sons. Therefore, Elizabeth Blackwell felt the same way (Crovitz 101). Although she had her strong beliefs in equality, she still had to face people who did not believe such an idea would be possible. .
However, Blackwell's motivation and discipline to reach her goals were kept strong because of the number of rejections she faced, not only by schools, but by American society as well. Luis Decker O"Neil, the author of The Women's Book of World Records and Achievements stated, "the (medical) profession protested that (women working in medicine) was improper, unnatural, and wasteful, since most women would never practice it anyway" (Decker O"Neil 198). Historian John B. Blake commented, "The only careers that an educated woman might aspire to were writing and teaching" (Levin 91). Blackwell accepted the challenge to become a doctor simply because others believed she could not "survive the sights, smells, and ribaldry of a medical school" (Crovitz 108). Finally, when Blackwell was old enough and educated enough to apply for college, she was rejected eleven times before being accidentally accepted into Geneva College (Decker O"Neil 200). While at school at Geneva, "she had few allies and was an outcast," according to Jone Johnson Lewis, the editor of the Women's History website (Women's History). The townspeople thought she was either promiscuous or crazy to attend medical school with men (Kent 26). Soon after graduating from Geneva she still experienced prejudice at Bockley Medical School (Kent 27), and was yet again rejected by hospitals after earning her medical degree (Decker O"Neil 201).
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