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I think that every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking, or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford; thus completing her life by adding to her private duties the noble effort to advance God's Kingdom beyond the bounds of her home.

— Frances Power Cobbe The Duties of Women (1881)

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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.

My great panacea for making Society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

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Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.

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We can benefit our kind in no way so much as by being ourselves pure and upright and noble-minded.

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.

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