Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

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.

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.

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

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.

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