Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes
"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Nature)
"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
(Related: Dreams, Pleasure)
"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Dreams)
"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
(Related: Soul, Purpose, Eye, May, Mind, Nothing)
"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: God)
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Midnight, Will)
"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Virtue, Elegance)
"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
(Related: Sex, Authority, Woman)
"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Mind, Parents)
"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
(Related: Death, Heart, Affection, Echo, Grief, Now, Words)
"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
(Related: Society, Character, Energy, Man)
"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
(Related: Soul, Humanity)
"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Life)
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Evil, Extreme)
"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
(Related: Authorship, Connection, Production, Will)
"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
(Related: Death, Life, First, Light, World)
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Chaos, Invention, Voice)
"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
(Related: Being, Exercise, Reason, Result)
"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
(Related: Women)
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Charity, Justice, World)
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Power, Women)