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#1

“This," I thought, "is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind, compassionate and soft.”
― Mary Shelley, The Last Man

tags: power

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#2

“He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

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#3

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised 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.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden / Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman'

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#4

“God gave the World to Men in Common; But since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest Conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

tags: fancy-things, locke-hates-fancy

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#5

“You have sometimes wondered, my dear friend, at the extreme affection of my nature. But such is the temperature of my soul. It is not the vivacity of youth, the heyday of existence. For years have I endeavoured to calm an impetuous tide, labouring to make my feelings take an orderly course. It was striving against the stream. I must love and admire with warmth, or I sink into sadness.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

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#6

“My body was heading into a flare. I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#7

“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#8

“I busied myself to think of a story, —a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.”
― Mary Shelley

tags: frankenstein, horror, mary-shelley, monsters

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#9

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#10

“When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, lacking the knowledge I needed to live; when I think of how I sinned against my heart and my soul, then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness … Every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If youth only knew. Now my life will change, now I will be reborn.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#11

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

2559 likes

#12

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#13

“Taught from their 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.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: beauty, conditioning, feminism, inequality, misogyny, stereotypes, women

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#14

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

tags: dreams

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#15

“How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden / Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman'

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#16

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: charity, justice

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#17

“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#18

“How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

tags: celebrity-culture, true, wise

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#19

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction. . . .of being loved by someone who could understand him.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#20

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

1445 likes

#21

“But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#22

“It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#23

“Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: carpe-diem, life, reason

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#24

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

3382 likes

#25

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

tags: objectivism, reason, responsibility

225 likes

#26

“Whatever excites emotion has charms for me”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark

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#27

“A little patience, and all will be over.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

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#28

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark

tags: america, britain, england, money, power

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#30

“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”
― Mikhail Baryshnikov

tags: fun, fundamentals

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#30

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: antinatalism

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