Antoinette Brown Blackwell

"One activity initiates another; the largest individual force maintains those more active adjustments, "simultaneous and successive," between the internal and external, which indicate the most vigorous…"

"Nature's sturdiest buds and her best-fed butterflies belong to this sex; her female spiders are large enough to eat up a score of her little males; some of her mother-fishes might parody the nursery-s…"

"If it could be shown that men or women who are the parents of many children have thereby lost something of individual power, we might then be forced to admit that the greater cost related to the repro…"

"The warlike duty of defense is also borne chiefly by males, and must often be an immense tax on the energies."

"If women normally have equal appropriative powers with men, the surplus nutriment not needed for their smaller physiques may be constitutionally handed over to reproduction. Natural selection has orig…"

"In women, if there is a greater arrest of individual growth than in men, the difference begins in the fœtal life; their comparative weight and size at birth are the same as at maturity; and, if the fo…"

"Other things being equal, the law seems to be directly reversed."

"There is no more antagonism between growth and reproduction than between growth and thought, growth and muscular activity, growth and breathing."