#memory
Charlotte Bronte.
21 April is the birth anniversary of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist noted for Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition.
Her novels gave a new truthfulness to Victorian fiction and became classics in English literature.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
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– Joy Kallivayalil.
