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.

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.

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?