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...
Mary Shelley
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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion but when I see a fellowcreature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends I wish to be allowed to speak that I may say what I know of her character.
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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 cannot satisfy the one I will indulge the other.
- Mary Shelley