I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë · Jane to Rochester in the garden at Thornfield.

He made me love him without looking at me.

Charlotte Brontë · Jane Eyre on Mr. Rochester after his return to Thornfield, in Jane Eyre, Volume 2, chapter 2 (chapter 17 of the continuous numbering), 1847.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

Charlotte Brontë · Jane on her marriage to Rochester after ten years, in the novel's last chapter; gay here means cheerful.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.

Charlotte Brontë · Rochester pleading with Jane to stay after she has learned he is already married; she loves him and leaves anyway.

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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The Bible · John 8:32

Let my people go.

The Bible · Exodus 7:16

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft · The source reads: “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“He made me love him without looking at me.”

“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.”

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

“Let my people go.”

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”