If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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.

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

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

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.

It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

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