Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
Frances Power CobbePleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
Frances Power CobbeThe 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 CobbeIt 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 of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.
Frances Power CobbeI 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 CobbeThis 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