"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength." Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Eliza Reed to her sister Georgiana, in Jane Eyre, ch. 21 (1847). |
"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always mastersomething that at times strangely wills and works for itself.... If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame." Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Emily Brontė, Wuthering Heights, preface (1850). |
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