The Woman With the Cure Quotes

“years”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“mother is always a mother, although a child isn’t always a child.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“Amother is always a mother. It is a role that changes but gets no easier over time.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“She would work such miracles.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“She was supposed to be a piano teacher.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“Even scientific articles contributed to defining a woman's place.

It wasn't just by happenstance that when Dorothy was photographed with David Bodian for Time magazine at the conference where they announced their independently made discovery, the photographer positioned Dorothy to look like she was a secretary taking dictation from Bodian. Although she'd unofficial made "their" discovery years before he did.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“Not a direct quote, but referenced in the author's note at the end - Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was instrumental in developing a new method of treating polio.

Barbara Johnson, a laboratory technician who was paralyzed with polio after a workplace accident but went on the work with Sabin as his statistician.

Isabel Morgan vaccine successfully induced immunity in monkeys and was the basis of Jonas Salk's entry into the vaccine race. We'd be talking about the Morgan vaccine if she hadn't refused to test the vaccine on children.

Elsie Ward perfected the technique for growing the virus outside a living body. Her technique allowed Salk's lab to make enough of the virus to put in the vaccines for millions of children.

Whistleblower Bernice Eddy reported that test monkeys who got the vaccine from Cutter laboratories were developing polio, thus alerting officials that Cutter would be releasing unsafe vaccines for use. -- Her concerns were ignored and caused 200 children to acquire Polio through the vaccine. Many of the children were paralyzed. Some died. Federal regulations of vaccines was tightened because of this - and her.

Eleanor Abbott invented the game Candy Land to amuse patients after she herself was hospitalized for the disease.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“An army of scientists had been called to evaluate the trial of Jonas Salk's vaccine in American back in 1955. But to evaluate the design and execution of the hugest vaccine trial of all time, and the validity of the results, there was just her (Dorothy Horstmann).

No pressure, whatsoever.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“She, Henry Horesman's daughter, was to tell the most important person in this behemoth country, whether or not the vaccine that he'd allowed every person under the age of 20 in the USSR to take (a mind boggling 77 million young people), a vaccine given to him by a scientist from his archenemy - the US - was safe and effective?

If it was a flop, or if she misrepresented its efficacy, there would be world war.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

“You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner.

She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them.

And much like Sister Kenny's method for rehabilitating polio patients, her idea was scorned until enough men embraced it.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure