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.

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

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

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

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.

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

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