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.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

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

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.

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.

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