“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” 

«Am I a machine without feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little that I am soulless and heartless?»

hey I just met you,
thus this is madness.
but here’s my petticoat,
now have my babies.

Jane Eyre (2011)

I wish a woman could have action in her life, like a man. It agitates me to pain that the skyline over there is ever our limit. I long sometimes for a power of vision that would overpass it, if I could behold all I imagine. I’ve never seen a city. I’ve never spoken with men. And I fear my whole life will pass.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

I wish a woman could have action in her life, like a man. It agitates me to pain that the skyline over there is ever our limit. I long sometimes for a power of vision that would overpass it. If I could behold all I imagine. I’ve never seen a city. I’ve never spoken with men. And I fear my whole life will pass.

johnwatsoning:

best movies of 2011 (that I’ve seen & in no order) → Jane Eyre

“I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.”

I will be Jane Eyre no longer…