"I would confide to you perhaps my..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
More by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“A great acacia, with its slender trunkAnd overpoise of multitudinous leaves.(In which a hundred fields might spill their dewAnd intense verdure, yet find room enough)Stood reconciling all the place with green.”
“I cannot speakIn happy tones; the tear drops on my cheekShow I am sad;But I can speakOf grace to suffer with submission meek,Until made glad.”
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
More on Gender
“Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.”
“a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.”
“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”
More on Society
“Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.”
“The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.”
“When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.”