“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“consciousness. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and many… — Neil Hegarty Copy Share Image
“The small Japanese immortal sat cross-legged, his two swords resting flat on the ground before him. He folded his hands in his… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited… — Hope Nicholson Copy Share Image
“On the bus, I pull out my book. It's the best book I've ever read, even if I'm only halfway through. It's… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern… — Margaret Irwin Copy Share Image
“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Such an attitude presupposes confidence in one's own power to search for and recognize the truth, as well as trust in the… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The present realist bases his work upon types. Miss Bronte took the individual individually; we now take the mass representatively. Who would… — Henry Bonnell Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
“The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
