48 ordspråk av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley föddes den
30 August 1797 och dog den 1 Februar
1851 - remembered primarily for her classic Gothic novel Frankenstein, that gave birth to one of the best-known monsters.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. [Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold.
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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
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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.
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At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
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At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
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Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
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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.
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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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.
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I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created
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I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created
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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
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