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

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

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

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.

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.