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#1

“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: conformity, education, intelligence

#2

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#3

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

85006 likes

#4

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

3541 likes

#5

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

3445 likes

#6

“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.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

3394 likes

#7

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

1937 likes

#8

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

138 likes

#9

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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