Quotes by Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847 under the name Currer Bell. The eldest of the three Brontë sisters known as writers, she also wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853). She died in 1855, a few weeks before her 39th birthday.
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.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Reader, I married him.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.