People/B
The quotations of
British novelist and poet
1816–1855
15 quotes, most often on Morality, Love and Freedom.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
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, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and 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.