I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
From Mary Shelley
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.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
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.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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