Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Biography: Charlotte Brontë is best known for her novel "Jane Eyre." Born on Apr... more Biography: Charlotte Brontë is best known for her novel "Jane Eyre." Born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, England, she was a part of the famous Brontë literary family. Along with her siblings, she initially published poems under pseudonyms before achieving acclaim with her deeply evocative and groundbreaking fiction. less

"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do""Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education""I am not a bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will""I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself""He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same""Reader, I married him""I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.""I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.""Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.""I would always rather be happy than dignified.""Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.""You have a solemn duty to perform -- to leave me.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will"

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