I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

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.

When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

Different hearts beat on different strings

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.