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.

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

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.

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.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.