. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Only love can break your heart.

As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.