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~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
I shall live to improve myself, to take care of my child and to render myself worthy to join him. Soon my weary pilgrimage will begin.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quote