Quotes by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? >>

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. >>

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he get >>

Quotations about Women

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexual >>

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to >>

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American wo >>

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett