PART II

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded … to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”

—Jane Eyre