[on Sex:] ... The Total Deprivation Of

Health Has Its Science, As Well As Disease.

A Blank Wall Of Social And Professional Antagonism Faces The Woman.

If Society Will Not Admit Of Woman's Free Development, Then Society Must Be Remodeled.

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.

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.