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Top 15 Frances Power Cobbe Quotes (2025 Update)

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.”

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

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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 who shall yield.”

6. “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 who shall yield.”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “Pleasures of the mind have this advantage, – they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.”

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

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!”

11. “The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.”

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

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Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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 joke, – the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.”

14. “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 joke, – the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.”

— Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe Quote: “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?”

15. “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?”

— Frances Power Cobbe

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