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Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by Anton Chekhov New Edition (1996)

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“Am I hideous, Jane?
Very, sir: you always were, you know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"

"Are you a young lady?"

"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: empowerment, expectations, gender, honesty, independence, influence, integrity, love, marriage, matrimony, propriety, respect, self-determination, self-respect, uprightness, women

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“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: literature, marianne-dashwood, sense-sensibility

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“I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: imagination, reality

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“Shirley flashed him back full payment for his spying gaze. She curled her lip and tossed her tresses. The glance she gave was at once explanatory and defiant. It said: 'I like Mr. Moore's society, and I dare you to
find fault with my taste.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

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