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Quotation from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
Jane Eyre, Chapter XXIII (Project Gutenberg #1260)
Jane answers Rochester's comparison of her to a frantic wild bird, moments before he proposes.
Citation: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you." — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XXIII (Project Gutenberg #1260). (id jane-eyre-q6)
Virtues: Fortitude
Portrait: Jane Eyre title page, Unknown author, Public domain.
