Daughter of Earth and Water Quotes

“The woods and mountains opened her eyes to the beauty of Nature, and the teenaged city girl marvelled at views that Isabel regarded as commonplace. At the beginning of Mary’s sojourn she was inclined to take a book to a rustic place with a view, then spend hours there alone, reading, brooding and daydreaming. But she soon learned that woods and mountains were made for hiking, and thereafter she rarely took a book with her on her daily excursions into the outdoors.”
― Noel B. Gerson, Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“God and good angels guard us! surely this world, stored outwardly with shapes and influences of beauty and good, is peopled in its intellectual life by myriads of loving spirits that mould our thoughts to good, influence beneficially the course of events, and minister to the destiny of man. Whether the beloved dead make a portion of this company I dare not guess, but that such exist I feel — far off, when we are worldly, evil, selfish; drawing near and imparting joy and sympathy when we rise to noble thoughts and disinterested action. Such surely gather round one on such an evening, and make part of that atmosphere of love, so hushed, so soft, on which the soul reposes and is blest.  ”
― Gerson Noel Bertram, Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“she was determined to overcome her loneliness. She allowed no one else to know of the inner struggle, and she fought the battle alone, realizing that no one could help her. The”
― Gerson Noel Bertram, Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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― Gerson Noel Bertram, Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made.”
― Gerson Noel Bertram, Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Marriage was a noble institution, she declared, provided the husband did not take unfair advantage of his superior legal position and the wife did not succumb to the pressures of society and become a nonentity.”
― Gerson Noel Bertram, Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley