Children Quote by 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 who shall…

— 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 lives either…

— 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, and walks…

— Frances Power Cobbe

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

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

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

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 ourselves or…

— 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 throne of…

— 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 us, not…

— 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