“I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.”

“All women are ambitious naturallie”

“Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.”

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”

“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”

“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.”