This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a… — 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 us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share
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
