Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861
Birthday: March 6
Death: June 29
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!
source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.353
topic: Art, Women, Mean, Perfect Things
