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«It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
concentrate, concentrate on, hardly, on the way, put in, surprising
«No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks»
«My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.»
«We are tomorrow's past.»
«Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.»
«Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.»
«Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| About:
Mind,
Soul
| Keywords:
contributes, fix, fixed point, tranquilize, tranquilizing
«It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.»
«I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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