Women's Restlessness (the Battlements Passage)

From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
One of the most quoted protofeminist passages in Victorian fiction, written from the Thornfield rooftop.
Chapter 12
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do... it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings.
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