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.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

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

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.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Health has its science, as well as disease.