Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.

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.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

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.