It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

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

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