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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.294

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.55

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.29, Macmillan

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.112, Wave Books