But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.