Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

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 wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.