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English Romantic Novelist remembered primarily for her classic Gothic novel Frankenstein, that gave birth to one of the best-known monsters. 1797-1851

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“A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse”
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“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”
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“It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason”
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“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos”
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“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
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“Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.”
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“The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.”
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“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.”
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“If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.”
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“At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice”
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