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Anandabai Joshee

  • . . . I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

    • Anandabai Joshee,
    • letter to her aunt (1881), in Caroline Wells Healey Dall, The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee ()
  • ... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

    • Anandabai Joshee,
    • in Caroline Wells Healey Dall, The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee ()

Anandabai Joshee, Indian physician

(1865 - 1887)