Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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    Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
    —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851)

    France, indeed! whose Catholic millions still worship Mary Queen of Heaven; and for ten generations refused cap and knee to many angel Maries, rightful Queens of France.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    There was no corn—in the wide market-place
    All loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold;
    They weighed it in small scales—and many a face
    Was fixt in eager horror then; his gold
    The miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold
    Through hunger, bared her scornèd charms in vain.
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)