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09887f1 I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. integrity self-determination independence women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment image realism gender flaws Charlotte Brontë
e4f7d21 I would always rather be happy than dignified. women pride Charlotte Brontë
4b0237f Do you think I am an automaton? -- a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! -- I have as much soul as you -- and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave .. Charlotte Brontë
fec94b8 care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. solitude individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment defiance self-reliance self-respect self-esteem Charlotte Brontë
78f9e34 I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. men equality women-s-rights self-determination independence women freedom reason empowerment superiority submission experience gender Charlotte Brontë
a864e6f No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?" "They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer. "And what is hell? Can you tell me that?" "A pit full of fire." "And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" "No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable.. religion humor hell Charlotte Brontë
9463e1a Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. literature freedom inspirational Charlotte Brontë
3ecd1fc Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you." literature inspirational Charlotte Brontë
76d1b6e If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. innocence Charlotte Brontë
5c65487 I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. integrity men self-determination independence romance women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment love ideal-woman image realism gender flaws Charlotte Brontë
4c00620 Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! poverty heartbreak heart love misconceptions plainness parting obscurity jane-eyre soul Charlotte Brontë
26b3eaa I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. jane Charlotte Brontë
f43014d Reader, I married him. Charlotte Brontë
c298d58 Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. love fidelity Charlotte Brontë
431c788 Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. prejudice Charlotte Brontë
ac093fc I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. love attraction Charlotte Brontë
4ac8119 Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice. sex flirting Charlotte Brontë
ca077b0 Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. integrity love Charlotte Brontë
533b92d The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. mind interpretation soul Charlotte Brontë
829e838 I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. obsession Charlotte Brontë
e853b4b I ask you to pass through life at my side--to be my second self, and best earthly companion. Charlotte Brontë
4473b65 It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?" I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still. "Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly.. romance Charlotte Brontë
e5ee9b6 But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! inspirational Charlotte Brontë
a37a05d It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they.. jane-eyre gender-equality Charlotte Brontë
1627369 Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. loneliness life sunshine Charlotte Brontë
c30923f We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence. nature Charlotte Brontë
dc10265 There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. friendship happiness inspirational Charlotte Brontë
126f39d It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. women love unavowed-love secret-love sense flattery vulnerability Charlotte Brontë
07c362b Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me." mr-rochester Charlotte Brontë
64588ca Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? temptation morality religion steadfastness doctrine law ethics principles soul Charlotte Brontë
c86ab6b You -- you strange -- you almost unearthly thing! -- I love as my own flesh. You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. Charlotte Brontë
c0cd1f7 I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." integrity self-determination independence women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment ideal-woman image realism gender flaws Charlotte Brontë
cf5d108 Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. fate jane-eyre Charlotte Brontë
964e194 Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?" "I do indeed, sir." "Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be .. pain relationship sickness Charlotte Brontë
5737023 If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. stereotypes feminism women empowerment false-belief misconceptions illusions misogyny hypocrisy double-standards gender expectations Charlotte Brontë
d1d1a3d Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. morality religion life Charlotte Brontë
4e5a47c I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. inspirational Charlotte Bronte
fa3e4b2 I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils. empowerment enterprise Charlotte Brontë
3c4e30c Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know. Charlotte Brontë
4c54326 I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. marriage love wife Charlotte Brontë
9ee75db Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, .. criticism religion truth Charlotte Brontë
30767da It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. life jane-eyre human-nature Charlotte Brontë
8127cc5 I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. Charlotte Brontë
b7ec95c I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
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