A Life of One's Own Quotes

“The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,” [Mary Wollstonecraft] wrote to a friend. “I found my evenings solitary; and I wished, while fulfilling the duty of a mother, to have some person with similar pursuits, bound to me by affection; and beside, I earnestly desired to resign a name which seemed to disgrace me.”
― Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again