The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

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

My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.