It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

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.

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

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.

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

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