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Yes, " she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career–no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded–a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley