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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

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