Alice Hamilton

“My work... is to try to discover the relations between the work a man does and the diseases from which he suffers.”

“I chose my calling and stuck to it. I have no wife, no children.”

“It is a commonplace that the spinner of cotton, the weaver of wool, the painter of china, is in a far more dangerous trade than the man who digs ditches or lays bricks.”

“For me, the satisfaction is in the adventure of science and in the joy of discovering new things.”

“The great achievement of the industrial revolution was that it made possible the good life for the many.”

“Unless the feminists of the future are distinctly more successful than we have been, they will have to go on fighting.”

“I had to learn that it is not safe to say 'there is no such thing as' a thing.”

“Industrial medicine is a new and broad field for women.”

“The best of life is always ahead, always further on.”

“The modern world is one of great unrest and of questioning of all authority.”

“Everything is posthumous.”