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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging..."

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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