Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

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.

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

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

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

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

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.