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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

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

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

One wondering thought pollutes the day — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

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

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

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. — 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

Trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The modern masters promise very little — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... — Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ... — Mary Wollstonecraft

The type of guys I used to date wouldn't know the difference between Rowling and Rolaids. — Tabi Wollstonecraft

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices ... rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue can only flourish among equals. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent. — 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

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

It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love. — Mary Wollstonecraft

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! — Mary Wollstonecraft

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character. — 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

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

...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

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

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly. — 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

The young are always in extremes. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[...] 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

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

A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still — Dale Carnegie

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

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

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

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