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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

— Betty Friedan

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

— Thomas Sydenham

The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.

— Bernie Siegel

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

— Mason Cooley

✗Opposing Perspectives

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

— May Sarton

Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.

— Tony Tan

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

— Lorraine Hansberry

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

— Boris Pasternak