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

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

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.

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

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

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

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.