“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.”
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“I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.”
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“I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.”
― Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
― Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
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