Mary Shelley Quotes
29 Mary Shelley quotes:
"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."
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"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."
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"I shall live to improve myself, to take care of my child and to render myself worthy to join him. Soon my weary pilgrimage will begin."
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"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
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"Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not."
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
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"Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties."
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos"
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"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."
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"I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves."
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"The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have preceded the event which has crushed my hopes yet there seems to be a necessity in doing so, and I obey the impulse that urges me."
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"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country."
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"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
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"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."
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"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with"
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"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . ."
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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
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