“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”
Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre
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Also published on this day, but in 1953, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany.
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressions.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
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