27 April 1759 is the birthdate of Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, philosopher, and feminist; the mother of Mary Shelley. Here are 10 quotes from her:
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
The beginning is always today.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
We never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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