The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.