Thomas Hardy quote about strength from Far from the Madding Crowd - When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
pick facebookpinterest picture source

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). copy citation

edit
Author Thomas Hardy
Source Far from the Madding Crowd
Topic strength woman
Date 1874
Language English
Reference
Note
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/107/107-h/107-h.htm

Context

“Perhaps in no minor point does woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false—except, indeed, in that of being utterly sceptical on strictures that she knows to be true.
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
Bathsheba was not conscious of guile in this matter.” source

Meaning and analysis

write a note
report