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 do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

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

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

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.