Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMy father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyI was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyEven where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley