Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“The beginning is always today.”

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed, my dearest pleasure when free.”

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

“Solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

“What can be expected from a sea of troubles if not a corresponding sea of discoveries?”

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

“Our passions are wild beasts. It is necessary to be able to command them.”

“I am alone and miserable. Man will not associate with me, but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.”