“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.”

“Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.”

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”

“one might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense.”

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”