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Mary Shelley [1797-1851] English

Rank: 101
Author, Novelist

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.

Death, Dreams, Women, Food, Men, Nature, Power

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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.	Women	101
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.	Men, Power, Women	102
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.		103
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.		104
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.	Death	105
Elegance is inferior to virtue.		106
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.	Nature	107
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.		108
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.	Dreams	109
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.		110
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.		111
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	112
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.		113
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!		114
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.		115
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.	Food	116
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.		117
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.	Dreams	118

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