Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
You transfix me quite. - Charlotte Bronte
You transfix me quite.
- Charlotte Bronte
He is not to them what he is to me. - Charlotte Bronte
He is not to them what he is to me.
Make my happiness--I will make yours. - Charlotte Bronte
Make my happiness--I will make yours.
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. - Charlotte Bronte
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. - Charlotte Bronte
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Your will shall decide your destiny. - Charlotte Bronte
Your will shall decide your destiny.
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. - Charlotte Bronte
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst stran… - Charlotte Bronte
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst stran…
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. - Charlotte Bronte
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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