“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
More from Charlotte Brontë
“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.”
“THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the…”
“He made me love him without looking at me.”