In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

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

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

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.