"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."

"My imagination is dead, my genius lost, my energies sleep."

"I have often thought that the world is a vast prison, where the greater part of mankind are condemned to wear their fetters."

"I wish that women would have power not over men, but over themselves."

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."