Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes about Children

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My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

My 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 Shelley

Children, Father, Struggle

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Running, Strong, Children

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.45

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Children, Men, Parent

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.269, The Floating Press