"I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes."

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Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

Frances Power Cobbe

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