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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist best known for her famous work, 'Frankenstein'. Born on August 30, 1797, and passing away on February 1, 1851, she was an early female writer whose works explored themes such as women's rights, social inequalities, and scientific ethics.

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Famous Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

“Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.”

Eye Form Youth Assuming Faults Giants Exaggerated

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.”

Giving Light Form Grief Objects Color All Things Fantastic Woe Sustenance

Book:The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

“...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”

Form Quality Capable Excellent Unfolding

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

Form Creator Monsters Disgusting Hideous Frankenstein Novel Frankenstein's Monster

Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein”

Source: Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”

Giving Writing Firsts Doe Form Dark Materials Creating Chaos Invention Substance Void

Book:Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

“Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.”

Form Blessing Expectations Boredom Demon Refuge Threshold Parts Of Life Stirring Ennui

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

About the Author

Born: August 30, 1797
Died: February 1, 1851
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 221

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Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)Related source material

Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth CenturyRelated source material

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