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Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I then supped with my companions, with whom I was soon after to part for ever - always a most melancholly, death-like idea - a sort of separation of soul; for all the regret which follows those from whom fate separates us, seems to be something torn from ourselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel? — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure. My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All men hate the wretched. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. But even human sympathies were not sufficient to satisfy his eager mind. The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour[...] — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Tabi Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sorrow only increased with knowledge. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I will be cool, persevering, and prudent. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Laura Mullen

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter. — Laura Mullen

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Erica Jong

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad. — Erica Jong

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shall I not then hate them who abhor me? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed ... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers - in a word, better citizens — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by the force of my arguments, than dazzle by the elegance of my language, I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart. - I shall be employed about things, not words! — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring ... nor to dry up the feelings by employing the mind in investigations remote from life. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Tabi Wollstonecraft

A good man is hard to write! — Tabi Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts ... — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The weather was cheerful, the breath of spring animating. She watched the swelling of the buds - the peeping heads of the crocuses - the opening of the anemones and wild wind-flowers, and at last, the sweet odour of the new-born violets, with all the interest created by novelty; not that she had not observed and watched these things before, with transitory pleasure, but now the operations of nature filled all her world; the earth was no longer merely the dwelling place of her acquaintance, the stage on which the business of society was carried on, but the mother of life - the temple of God - the beautiful and varied store-house of bounteous nature. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Pygmalion formed an ivory maid, and longed for an informing soul. She, on the contrary, combined all the qualities of a hero's mind, and fate presented a statue in which she might enshrine them. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I do not fear to die, that pang is past. God raises my weakness, and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of Heaven!"~~Justine Moritz — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

which I hoped to make. None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the discharge of a duty, common to the whole animal world, that only reason can give. This is the parental affection of humanity, and leaves instinctive natural affection far behind. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Jordan Stratford

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost over-bearing, or weakly subsmissive, have no will or opinion of his own; but all women are to be levelled, by meekness and docility, into one character of yielding softness and gentle compliance — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

If we pant after higher improvement and higher attainments, it is not sufficient to view ourselves as we suppose that we are viewed by others ... Because each by-stander may have his own prejudices, beside the prejudices of his age or country. We should rather endeavor to view ourselves as we suppose that Being views [us]. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Shelley

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. — Mary Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wollstonecraft Quotes By David Eagleman

When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels.
After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky. — David Eagleman

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me ... — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By 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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I never wanted but your heart
that gone, you have nothing more to give. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

Gracious Creator of the whole human race! hast thou created such a being as woman, who can trace thy wisdom in thy works, and feel that thou alone art by thy nature, exalted above her-for no better purpose? Can she believe that she was only made to submit to man her equal; a being, who, like her, was sent into the world to acquire virtue? Can she consent to be occupied merely to please him; merely to adorn the earth, when her soul is capable of rising to thee? And can she rest supinely dependent on man for reason, when she ought to mount with him the arduous steeps of knowledge? — Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. — Mary Wollstonecraft