I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

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.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.