At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away. β¨ Charlotte Bronte (2010). Shirley and The Professor, p.119, Everyman's Library
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- Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. β¨ Charlotte Bronte (2009). Villette: Easyread Edition, p.157, ReadHo β¦ βΆ
- Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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