Mary Shelley Quotes

14 quotes from 14 authors

Mary Shelley’s name summons imagination, and these fourteen snippets showcase how writers and fans alike wrestle with her legacy. From daring daring to quiet reverence, the quotes map a spectrum of admiration and critique. Fans of gothic literature, Frankenstein, or Victorian women writers may check out those collections.

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One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.

Jennifer Egan

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“It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” the future Mary Shelley wrote, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.”…

Greg Breining

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Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's…

Peter Murphy

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“In fact, there was an ancient bearded guy in the corner who looked like he'd probably palled around with Mary Shelley.”

Rachel Hawkins

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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but…

Erica Jong

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Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I…

Scott Adsit

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It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something…

Laura Mullen

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One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's…

Danny Boyle

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“I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine... gentle yet courageous, possessed,…

David Boyle

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I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions…

Mordicai Gerstein