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

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.

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

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

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

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

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.