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

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

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

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

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

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.

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

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

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore.

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

The city's full of people who you just see around.