My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature …

- M. Carey Thomas

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

- M. Carey Thomas

in intellect there is no sex.

- M. Carey Thomas

I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours an…

- M. Carey Thomas

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

- M. Carey Thomas

Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I …

- M. Carey Thomas

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

- M. Carey Thomas

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

- M. Carey Thomas

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

- M. Carey Thomas