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“... in intellect there is no sex.”
- M. Carey Thomas,
- in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage (1922)
“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.”
- M. Carey Thomas,
- in Edith Finch, Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr (1948)
“I remember praying about it, and begging God that if it were true that because I was a girl I could not successfully master Greek and go to college and understand things to kill me at once, as I could not bear to live in such an unjust world.”
- M. Carey Thomas,
- in Barbara M. Cross, ed., The Educated Woman in America (1974)
“Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.”
- M. Carey Thomas,
- in Barbara M. Cross, ed., The Educated Woman in America (1974)

(1857 - 1935)

Full name: Martha Carey Thomas.