- 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley {view}
- 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley {view}
- 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 Shelley {view}
- 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley {view}
- 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley {view}