Quotes by Frances Power Cobbe

"My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity."
— Frances Power Cobbe
"Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?"
— Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She ...