“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”Jane Eyre, Chapter 23 · View source
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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”Jane Eyre, Chapter 27 · View source
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”Jane Eyre, Chapter 6 · View source
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.”Jane Eyre, Chapter 19 · View source
“We were born to strive and endure—you as well as I: do so.”Jane Eyre, Chapter 27 · View source