Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“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.”

“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.”