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

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.

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

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

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.

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