There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.