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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 a...more

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As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

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But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it t...more

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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 bec...more

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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 celesti...more

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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; yo...more

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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 old...more

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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same cat...more

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

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You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

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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, a...more

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You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they...more

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And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions." You play a farce, which I merel...more