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.

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!

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.

People before Profit.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

All men & women are created equal

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.