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

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 23.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 23.

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

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