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…"

"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."

"Every action, physical or psychical, involves either integration or disintegration; every use of faculty belongs to the latter class. There is no more antagonism between growth and reproduction than b…"

"The antagonism is only that of action and reaction, which are but two phases of the same process—opposing phases which exist everywhere, and which must exist, or action itself cease, and death reign u…"