Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

She would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. ~ Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell "I'll not listen to reason," she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say." ~ Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell "To be sure, a step-mother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!" ~ Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell "How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly." ~ Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell "But sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom." ~ Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell