Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself