Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.

Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?