Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women, Men, Power

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dreams, Free, Nobody

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mind, Parents, Faculty

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

Humanity, Soul, Others

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Justice, Charity, Wanting

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, Death, Through

Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Virtue, Inferior, Elegance

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Good, Evil, Political

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Chaos, Creating, Invention

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mind, Nothing, May

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

God, Him, Rather

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Food, Feelings, Misery

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Death, Happy, Heart

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Alone, Forward, Personal

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

Sex, Woman, Between

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Reason, Result, Call

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, Hated, Obstinate

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dreams, Once, Fantastic

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

Society, Character, Him

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nature, Weep, Winds

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Others, Describe, Midnight

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women, Put, Minds

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: August 30, 1797

Died: February 1, 1851

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