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And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
...misery had her dwelling in my heart...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft
(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It was the time of saying "Are we absolutely sure about this?" but it was also and more so the time of thinking it very loudly and not saying it.
— Jordan Stratford
...I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Be a man, or be more than a man.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Evil thenceforth became my good.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley