27 quotes
It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
Cassandra (1860)
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Cassandra (1860)
The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it.
Cassandra (1860)
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Cassandra (1860)
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
Cassandra (1860)
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organisation do not permit them to act.
Cassandra (1860)
And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?
Cassandra (1860)
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
Cassandra (1860)
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
Cassandra (1860)
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
Cassandra (1860)
To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing?
Cassandra (1860)
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Cassandra (1860)
Passion, intellect, moral activity — these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied.
Cassandra (1860)
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind — with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
Cassandra (1860)
Religious men are and must be heretics now — for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand — or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
Cassandra (1860)
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
Cassandra (1860)
It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
Cassandra (1860)
People do not go into the company of their fellow-creatures for what would seem a very sufficient reason, namely, that they have something to say to them, or something that they want to hear from them; but in the vague hope that they may find something to say.
Cassandra (1860)
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
Cassandra (1860)
A woman dedicates herself to the vocation of her husband; she fills up and performs the subordinate parts in it. But if she has any destiny, any vocation of her own, she must renounce it, in nine cases out of ten.
Cassandra (1860)