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.

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

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

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

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 well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art andthe art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry--yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.

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.