“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
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.”