"More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Bronte, Bronte, and Bronte. I began to resent Emily, Ann..."
- Catherine Lowell
"But in truth, neither the lonely meditations of the hermit nor the turmulos raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man’s heart. From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other ..."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown."
- P.J. Parker
"Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it into being. But it was not lost on Laura that the story might be a prolonged ex..."
- L.L. Barkat
"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I ..."
"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
"I have created something and let it loose upon the world. Whether it was my right to do so or not, I cannot say. At times I am filled with love for my creation. At others I am filled with regret and h..."
"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"