English - Author | August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851
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.
Mary Shelley
WomenLookWayMindsBeginBeen
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
ParentsMindBondageEveryFaculty
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
DreamsMoreFantasticThanOnce
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
FoodMeFeelingsRageMiseryAgony
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
WomanKingStandSexAuthorityHer
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.
AloneMyselfI AmForwardConnection
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