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Charlotte Brontë

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë

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.

Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Charlotte Brontë

genius charlotte bronte

Charlotte Brontë

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 me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!

Charlotte Brontë

genius charlotte bronte

Charlotte Brontë

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë