Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#authority #between #converse #ever #her

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#being #call #exercise #farce #own

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. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#begin #concentrate #hardly #instead #look

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#closest #hated #life #most #obstinate

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#character #daring #energy #had #him

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#i #i do #men #over #power

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#had #haunted #i #me #midnight

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#cramps #every #faculty #mind #parents

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#justice #wanting #world