Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her,… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
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