It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
Mary Wollstonecraft
Related
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibl...
JORDAN STRATFORD Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The idea that private money can solve our problems is very dangerous. Ultimately that's charity. Cha...
JONATHAN KOZOL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
RALPH NADER In the Christian obsessed with "social justice" it isn't easy to discern whether charity is flourish...
NICOLAS GOMEZ DAVILA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI Sometimes,
you must refrain from doing things you want so bad.
TOBA BETA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Lady Kingsley, when you read this, do attempt to keep an open mind.”
“I will if you w...
SABRINA JEFFRIES Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ...
G.K. CHESTERTON I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...
ERICA JONG To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaulteth not itself, is not puffe...
BIBLE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Charity isn't a good substitute for justice
JONATHAN KOZOL Another major difference between justice in the Bible and our modern views of justice is that in our...
JESSICA NICHOLAS I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on...
LEON KASS She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning ...
RACHEL HELD EVANS I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and chari...
SARGENT SHRIVER it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE This shows we have faith in the American justice system. This has shown that America is not only the...
AHMED BEDIER Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
CHARLES DICKENS Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door
CHARLES DICKENS This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the po...
ISABEL ALLENDE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to ...
MOHAMMED Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...
MOLIERE There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-...
GIOCONDA BELLI Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity;...
MUHAMMAD And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have ...
BIBLE Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, po...
NELSON MANDELA Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
THOMAS BROWNE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge,...
OSCAR ARIAS Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really hel...
ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the wor...
HUGH MACLEOD Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... ...
JESSICA FELLOWES Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
A.W. TOZER Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Sc...
MARTIN LUTHER “If doing CHARITY is a contagious
disease, I would love to spread it out to infect all people in t...
ED IBAñEZ Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world ...
MOLIERE If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS
More Mary Wollstonecraft
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they l...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Virtue can only flourish among equals.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadl...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of i...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT ...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfold...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their bro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast pr...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowled...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his nati...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purp...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the sou...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY And the violet lay dead while the odour flew
On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monst...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the so...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY [Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy yo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their min...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the sa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome vi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul ma...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are tomorrow's past.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was n...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady
purpose-a point on which the soul ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I am malicious because I am miserable
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ic...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilenc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume II: Chapter V
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that peo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Live, and be happy, and make others so.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficie...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY From thence we proceeded to Oxford. As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembra...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which sho...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and assoc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of kn...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick su...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and rui...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience,...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did no...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all tru...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the exce...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR