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, accusto…

- 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

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 mor…

- 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 really love them.

- 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 command, but wh…

- 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 the equal o…

- 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 not at all.

- 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 of narrowest toil or sense…

- 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