The Medicine Woman of Galveston Quotes

“In 1870, only 0.8 percent of doctors in America were women. By 1900, that number had increased to nearly 6 percent! Unfortunately, growth slowed (and sometimes ceased) in the decades after. In 1970, women accounted for only 7 percent of doctors. Today, the percentage of active physicians who are women is around 38 percent.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“In their day, women performers ranked just above prostitutes on the social respectability scale. Lady physicians not much higher. But her father was dead nine years now. And Tucia didn’t care what her stepmother thought. In fact, the idea of further scandalizing her stirred a perverse delight.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“preying upon those who were too uneducated to know truth from lie. But seeing”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“Besides, there’s more to a person than the worse thing they done.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“there’s more to a person than the worse thing they done.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“Sometimes medicine presents us with impossible choices.” “Sometimes life does as well.” She jabbed a finger at the door. “Now get out.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“Tucia gave her name in reply and shook the women’s hands. She’d learned about venereal disease in school and shared Dr. Blackwell’s belief that prostitution reduced men to brutes and women to machines. But for all her notions on the matter, Tucia had not actually met a prostitute before. Certainly never shaken one’s hand. Fresh out of medical school, she would have looked down on these women, and perhaps offered some trite and moralizing advice. Now, she found them little different from herself—women making the most of life’s hard knocks.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“but it had that peculiar, dreamlike quality of both living a moment and watching it happen from afar.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“No, she’d need to mask her advice-giving behind something else. Find her own version of bitterroot. Her eye snagged on the yellow book. Palm reading. Ridiculous as it was, it might be the perfect guise.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“And once she’d repaid her debt to Huey, maybe then she and her son could truly start over.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“Besides, there's more to a person than the worst thing they done.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston

“What if I am panicked, though?” she blurted out. Darl was quiet for a minute. “Practice until you’re not.” “That doesn’t help much in the moment.” “Life ain’t about a single moment.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Medicine Woman of Galveston