Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleywas an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft...
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Date of Birth30 August 1797
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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
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At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
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Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
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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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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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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!