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.

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.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

The fates lead her who will

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.