Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.”

“A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by...”

“The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.”

“The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.”

“Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.”