Feminism

Quote

Character

Chapter

“I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me. I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.”

Jane

6

“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.”

Jane

12

“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.”

Jane

12

“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought”

Jane

25

“As for me, I daily wished more to please him: but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half of my nature.”

Jane

34