It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.