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I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nay the honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it. By
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
We never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
— 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
what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibly become co-conspirators.
— Jordan Stratford
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy - for I am sad - and have cause.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
— 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
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The modern masters promise very little
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
One wondering thought pollutes the day
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am not well; I am tired with this comfortless estrangement from all that is dear to me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices ... rather than to root them out.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
...misery had her dwelling in my heart...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
...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
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it,
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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[...] and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty - they will prove that they have less mind than man.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My husband - my king.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.
— 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 young are always in extremes.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
