I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards, leaving no trave in the fables of their time.

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.

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

It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating!

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil . . . which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist . . .

We got off to a slow start, ... It took us three innings to get us going. This is a better Natchez than we expected.

She played fast-pitch in the spring, and she wasn't going to play slow-pitch,

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

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!