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 senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!


The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures (ed. 1882)

Frances Power Cobbe Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...