"We teachers make the road, others will..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables”

“Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.”

“A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.”

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”

“What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.”

“The proper school to learn art is not life but art”

“The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.”

“Solidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”