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My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine. - Mary Shelley Quotes

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . . - Mary Shelley Quotes

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

Example Men And Women

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy. - Mary Shelley Quotes

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.

I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created - Mary Shelley Quotes

I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. - Mary Shelley Quotes

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Charity English Author

At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice - Mary Shelley Quotes

At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice

Boys

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse - Mary 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

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Shelley Quotes

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mind

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 - Mary Shelley Quotes

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

Women

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks - Mary Shelley Quotes

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. - Mary Shelley Quotes

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Dreams English Author

We are tomorrow's past. - Mary Shelley Quotes

We are tomorrow's past.

English Novelist Past

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. - Mary Shelley Quotes

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

English Author Life

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. - Mary Shelley Quotes

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Beauty British Writer

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye - Mary Shelley Quotes

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye

Mind

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. - Mary Shelley Quotes

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

English Author Men

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

Men

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason - Mary Shelley Quotes

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 - Mary Shelley Quotes

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos

Chaos

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 Shelley Quotes

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.

Energy English Author

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. - Mary Shelley Quotes

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Death English Author

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. - Mary Shelley Quotes

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

English Author Evil

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. - Mary Shelley Quotes

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

English Author Nature

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . . - Mary Shelley Quotes

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . .

[Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold. - Mary Shelley Quotes

[Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people! - Mary Shelley Quotes

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

English Author God

Man, I cried,

Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

Art

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been. - Mary Shelley Quotes

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Hope

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. - Mary Shelley Quotes

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Affection English Author

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

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

Dreams English Author

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

Soul

I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. - Mary Shelley Quotes

I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.

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. - Mary Shelley Quotes

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.

Elegance is inferior to virtue. - Mary Shelley Quotes

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Elegance English Author

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. - Mary Shelley Quotes

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. - Mary Shelley Quotes

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

English Author Mind

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 Shelley Quotes

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

British Writer Children

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind. - Mary Shelley Quotes

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind.

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. - Mary Shelley Quotes

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

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