One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British member of parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.
