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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.

— 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.

The Duties of Women (1881)

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.

The Duties of Women (1881)

We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

The Duties of Women (1881)

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