"Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity—these three—and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?"

"I am a woman of business, and I have a great deal of business to do."

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"I am a person of very strong feelings, and I am not a person who can express them."