Mary Shelley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Elegance is inferior to virtue.”

“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.”

“A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.”

“Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!”

“My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.”

“The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.”

“A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.”

“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.”