More from Charlotte Brontë
- Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 27In context
- Jane Eyre (1847), Jane to Mr. Rochester (Ch. 23)In context
- Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 8 (Helen Burns)In context
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.
