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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft, born on April 27, 1759, and died on September 10, 1797, was an influential English writer, philosopher, and feminist. She is best known for her work 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', which challenged the gender roles and social structures of her time. more

“I hear a choir, far enough away for me not to hear it when it goes soft. It is a song I know, I don't know how, and when it fades, and when it dies quite away, it goes on inside me, but too slow, or too fast, for when it comes on the air to me again it is not together with mine, but behind, or ahead. It is a mixed choir, or I am greatly deceived. With children too perhaps. I have the absurd feeling it is conducted by a woman. It has been singing the same song for a long time now. They must be rehearsing. It belongs already to the long past, it has uttered for the last time the triumphal cry on which it ends.”

Mind Music Memory

Book:Malone Dies

Source: Malone Dies

“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets with¬ out putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.”

Mind Criticism Praise

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“Traumas scar the same mind that memories merely imprint.”

Mind Death Memories Trauma Island Of The Dying Goddess Ronit J

Book:Island of the Dying Goddess

Source: Island of the Dying Goddess

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