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 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.

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

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

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

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.