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Charlotte is not holding back with this one.
„At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,—inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.“
— Jan 09, 2026 01:43PM
„At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,—inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.“
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It took until page 196 to actually meet Shirley, but I am willing to accept this because I am intrigued by the title of Volume 2, chapter VII: „Which the genteel reader is recommended to skip, low persons being here introduced.“
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Jan 10, 2026 10:54AM
That quote just convinced me to try to read Charlotte Brontë (I’m still on how long it took me to finish Jane Eyre)
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