Frances Power Cobbe

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not…

— Frances Power Cobbe

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to…

— Frances Power Cobbe

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

— Frances Power Cobbe

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses,…

— Frances Power Cobbe

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them…

— Frances Power Cobbe

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to…

— Frances Power Cobbe

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room,…

— Frances Power Cobbe

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a…

— Frances Power Cobbe

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

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by…

— Frances Power Cobbe

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the…

— Frances Power Cobbe

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes…

— Frances Power Cobbe

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

— Frances Power Cobbe

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it…

— Frances Power Cobbe

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just…

— Frances Power Cobbe

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who…

— Frances Power Cobbe

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do…

— Frances Power Cobbe

So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart…

— Frances Power Cobbe

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

— Frances Power Cobbe

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some…

— Frances Power Cobbe

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

— Frances Power Cobbe