[ Famous Quotes ] Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, English novelist; author of �Frankenstein� � Part 1

Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, English novelist; author of “Frankenstein” – Part 1

“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”

“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust -- ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable -- and life is more than a dream.”

“Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.”

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