Tag Archives: Thought for the Day

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), feminist and anti-vivisectionist

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), feminist and anti-vivisectionist

…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 … Continue reading →

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our … Continue reading →

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)