Health has its science, as well as disease.

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.

Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.

If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

The more you know the less you need to say.

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.