“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
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Just like in Jane Eyre, the moral of the story would be 'never forget that you're nothing but a sad sausage.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The words of Jane Eyre skipped through my mind. How deceiving they were. No wonder the council had outlawed books. Stories enabled… — Tiffany Truitt 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
“Mr. Rochester : Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre. Do you think me handsome? Jane Eyre: No, sir.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield 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
“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many… — Barbara Pym 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
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No heroine in Charlotte and Anne Bronte's fiction omits this duty, even in times of danger and perturbation of mind; but most… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is… — Wirt Gerrare Copy Share Image
“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I’ve got the flask I stole from Elliot down in my locker,” Annie says. Time: three minutes, forty-two seconds. And the record… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte 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
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
