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

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

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.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

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.

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