Quotes About Wollstonecraft

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

You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and, instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.

do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.

I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.

Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.

I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent; but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.

paused some time to reflect on all he had related, and the various arguments which he had employed.

must perform my engagement,4 and let the monster depart with his mate, before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of an union from which I expected peace.

The tranquillity which I now enjoyed did not endure. Memory brought madness with it; and

followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected

feliz de haber encontrado un refugio ante las inclemencias de la estación y, sobre todo, ante la barbarie del hombre.

shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price perhaps of the existence of the whole human race.

But power, in all its shapes, is venerable to man. Awe, curiosity, a clinging fascination, drew me towards him.

The most holy band of society is friendship. Mary Wollstonecraft, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'

Mary Wollstonecraft was the first person to apply the phrase 'legal prostitution' to marriage.