When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.