Quotes by Mary Shelley - Page 1

Elegance is inferior to virtue.
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Elegance
Virtue
Inferior
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
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Closest
Hated
Obstinate
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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
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Bondage
Faculty
Cramp
Slavish
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Power
Women
Men
Wish
Women Power Men
Over
Themselves
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My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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Fantastic
Agreeable
Once More
Writings
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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Nature
Accents
Soothing
Nature Me More
Maternal
Weep
Whispered
Winds
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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Teach
Oh
Oh My God
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
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Chaos
Creating
Invention
Void
Admitted
Does
Consist
Humbly
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What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
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Midnight
Pillow
Spectre
Terrified
Describe
Haunted
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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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Dreams
Annoyed
My Own
Pleasure
Refuge
Free
Nobody
Dearest
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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Agony
Misery
Rage
Allowed
Could
Extract
Incident
Occurred
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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
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Authority
Rational
Sex
Stand
Woman
Converse
Her
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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Death
Bounds
Break
Dark
Life And Death
Light
Should
World
Life Death World
Me
Appeared
Through
First
Ideal
Pour
Torrent
Which
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Eye
Intellectual
May
Mind
Purpose
Soul
Steady
Nothing
Much
Fix
Point
Which
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It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
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Surprising
Women Look Way
Begin
Concentrate
Hardly
Instead
Minds
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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.
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Death
Happy
Affection
Grief
Heart
Hideous
Offspring
Progeny
Words
Now
Go
Once
Again
True
Bid
Days
Were
Echo
Forth
Happy Days
Prosper
Which
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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 /
Cease
Felt
Humanity
Miserable
My Soul
Should
Tree
Then
Bolt
Entered
Exhibit
Intolerable
Pitiable
Shall
Soon
Spectacle
Survive
Wrecked
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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 /
Authorship
Confined
Former
Intrusion
Print
Topics
Account
Alone Myself I Am
Appear
Averse
Bringing
Connection
Forward
Hardly
In Print
Production
Personal
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