People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.