My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
Source: In Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr, ch. 1, by Edith Finch, 1947.
-- Martha Carey Thomas, (Jan 2 1857-1935), US educator, feminist; She championed excellence in higher education for women; helped found, and then was the first dean and president of Bryn Mawr College.