Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.
M. Carey ThomasIt is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
M. Carey Thomas. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.
M. Carey ThomasMy one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
M. Carey ThomasBefore I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.
M. Carey Thomas