Quotes by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley began Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus when she was 18, and it was published anonymously in 1818, when she was 20. She was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. The wording here is the 1818 text.
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.