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

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.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

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

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.

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

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