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.

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

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.

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.

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.