I Felt More Than Ever The Necessity

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.

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.

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.

The Gross Perversion And Destruction Of Motherhood By The Abortionist Filled Me With Indignation, And Awakened Active Antagonism. That The Honorable Term 'female Physician' Should Be Exclusively Applied To Those Women Who Carried On This Shocking Trade Seemed To Me A Horror. It Was An Utter Degradation Of What Might And Should Become A Noble Position For Women.