15 Quotes by Frances Power Cobbe

Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?

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

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and “manage” by base arts a husband or a father, – I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

It is a woman, and only a woman, – a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, – who can turn a house into a home.

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

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 with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

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

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.