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.
Mary Shelley
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I also became a poet and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
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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