“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.” WomenFeminismExpectationsEmpowermentGenderHypocrisyMisogynyStereotypesIllusionsDouble StandardsClichésMisconceptionsFalse Belief Book:Shirley Source: Shirley
“Es inútil decir que los seres humanos deberían estar satisfechos de llevar una vida tranquila; han de tener acción, y si no pueden encontrarla, la provocarán de un modo u otro.” FeminismQuietLife And LivingHumanWoman Author:Charlotte Brontë
“My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven” ReligionDestinyFeminismDecisionsWomen Rights Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“Jane, will you marry me?" "Yes sir." "A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?" "Yes, sir." "A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?" "Yes, sir." "Truly, Jane?" "Most truly, sir.” LoveRomanceStrongWomenSacrificeFeminismNow That S True Love Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“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 need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to 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. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” FeminismGender EqualityJane Eyre Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“if people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and injust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they will never be afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again” FeminismVengeance Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“I grieve to leave: I love this place-I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,- momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,- with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking in the necessity of death.” LoveLove QuotesFeminismLove Story Book:Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Illustrations Source: Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Illustrations
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?” MenWomenMarriageFeminismIntegrityEmpowermentDignitySelf AwarenessIndependenceEqualityGenderChoiceSelf DeterminationInferiorityMatrimonyWorthinessCourtshipSocial NormsWooingMarriage ProposalSuitability Book:Shirley Source: Shirley