I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity..

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown..

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women..

[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability..

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought..

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested..

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is..

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long..

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In n….

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibi….

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable ….

Health has its science, as well as disease..

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman..

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart..

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!.

It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical s….

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me..

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world..

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development..

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that becaus….

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled..