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.

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.

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.

I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.