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Frances Power Cobbe was Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette. Explore interesting quotes on herring.

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“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.”

Frances Power Cobbe

Lecture I, p. 36
The Duties of Women (1881)

“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

Lecture VI, p. 158
The Duties of Women (1881)

“The making of a true Home is really our peculiar and inalienable right; a right which no man can take from us, for a man can no more make a Home than a drone can make a hive. He can build a castle or a palace, but, poor creature! be he wise as Solomon and rich as Croesus, he cannot turn into a Home. No masculine mortal can do that. It is a woman, and only a woman; a woman all by herself if she likes, and without any man to help her, who can turn a House into a Home.”

Frances Power Cobbe

Lecture IV, pp. 114-115
The Duties of Women (1881)