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Attitudes to women
Social class
'Equality of position and fortune is often advisable in such cases' (Chapter 24)
'He thought himself her idol, ugly as he was' (Chapter 15)
'Descending from her chair, she came and placed herself on my knee; then, folding her little hands demurely before her, shaking back her curls and lifting her eyes to the ceiling, she commenced singing a song from some opera' (Chapter 11)
'I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils' (Chapter 10)
'You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poor-house' (Chapter 2)
'It is narrow-minded in [women's] more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags' (Chapter 12)
'I told you I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress' (Chapter 37)
'Don't mention governesses; the word makes me nervous. I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice; I thank Heaven I have now done with them!' (Chapter 17)
'I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies' (Chapter 29)
'They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try and make yourself agreeable to them' (Chapter 2)
'It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand' (Chapter 33)
'It is thoughtless to condemn [women], or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced for their sex' (Chapter 12)
'I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: - it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal - as we are!' (Chapter 23)
'The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors' (Chapter 26)
'I desired to be tall, stately and finely developed in figure' (Chapter 11)
'I should like her to be brought up in a manner suiting her prospects ... to be made useful, to be kept humble' (Chapter 4)
'"She was greatly admired of course?"
"Yes, indeed: and not only for her beauty, but for her accomplishments. She was one of the ladies who sang: a gentleman accompanied her on the piano'" (Chapter 16)
'I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders' (Chapter 14)
'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' (Chapter 12)
'Judging from the plainness of the servant and carriage, Mrs Fairfax is not a very dashing person: so much the better; I lived amongst fine people but once, and I was very miserable with them' (Chapter 11)