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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes
«A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse»
«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.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason»
«Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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Inventions
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admitted, consist, humbly, void
«Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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contributes, fix, fixed point, tranquilize, tranquilizing
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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Character
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organized society, rendered, renders, villain
«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.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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cunning, cunning man, infancy, justly, mothers, obedience, obtain, propriety, protection, puerile, scrupulous, softness, termed
«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.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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abstract, discussion, explanation, parity, prevails, Rights of Man, shrink, shrink from
«At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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boarding, boarding school, junior, juniors, mischief, relaxation, school board, seniors