“It may… be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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