A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

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.

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.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

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