Harriet Taylor Mill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Great necessities call out great virtues.

  • If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  • But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

  • I want in all cases to do right.

  • Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

  • Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

  • A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

  • I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

  • I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

  • In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.