Act 1, Scene 5

Wollstonecraft:  I am invisible.  I am a monster to be shunned.

Godwin:  Which is it?  You can’t be both.

Wollstonecraft:  I can’t be an invisible monster?  They are the worst kind.

 

Act 1, Scene 5:

Godwin:  “I did not ask you to marry me.”

Amelia:  “You most certainly did.” 

Godwin:  “I proposed to you, yes, but that was all.”

Amelia:  “What is a proposal if not an invitation to marry?”

Godwin:  “Well, it is a sort of hypothetical, isn’t it?”

Hays:  “Ha!”

 

Act 2, Scene 1

Alderson:  “Whatever pain or suffering you are experiencing, I want to always be your friend.”

Wollstonecraft:  “I don’t know that it’s so much “pain and suffering” I am feeling as it is embarrassments and humiliations, which are, I suppose, injuries to my sensibilities, my mind, my soul.  Can one DIE from humiliations?”

 

Act 2, Scene 1

Wollstonecraft:  How was your trip?

Godwin:  “Hated it.  Everything I want is here.” (Godwin goes in for an embrace, but Mary pushes him away.)

Wollstonecraft:  “I’m not feeling well tonight.  I’d like to be alone.” 

 

Act 2, Scene 2

Godwin: “I have a world.  You need a world. I want you to have mine.”

Wollstonecraft: (smiling) “You will give me your world.  Where will you live?”