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I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.