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"Jane ultimately rejects his 'patriarchal religious value-system'" (Lamonaca 245).

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In Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, Brontë highlights certain feminist qualities within Jane such as female oppression, male ownership, and spiritual dominance.

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"He also notes that the meaning of the word 'thing' varies dramatically–it can mean God or a rock" (Losano 56).

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"New materialism that takes objects for granted only in order to grant them potency" (Losano 55).

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"Throughout Jane Eyre, she insists readers understand that her heroine is mutable, difficult to pin down, unnameable and perhaps even unknowable" (Losano 53).

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"Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped on my foot and proposed to near me on its tiny wing" (Losano 52).

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"as 'thing' is a word used with surprising frequency to describe Jane, both within the novel and in criticism of the novel" (Losano 51).

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"If you reject my offer, it is not me that you deny, but God" (Lamonaca 252

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"While Rochester's temptation is difficult to resist, Jane nonetheless remains firm in her resolution to leave Thornfield" (Lamonaca 251).

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"the text emphasizes Rochester's spiritual dependence upon Jane" (Lamonaca 249

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"...but also prized a model of marriage in which wives were spiritually subordinate to their husbands" (Lamonaca 246).

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"Without a window, with only one lamp hung from a symbolic chain" (Meyer 4).

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"British text that compares white women with blacks in order to degrade both groups and assert the need for white male control" (Meyer 2).

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"She is emphatically not 'pale' but 'discoloured,' 'purple,' 'blackened'" (Meyer 3).

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"Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race" (Meyer 3).

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"I read Bertha's odd ambiguity of race– an ambiguity which is marked within the text itself..." (Meyer 3).

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"Before Jane leaves for Lowood school, she confronts her aunt about their interactions, using language that challenges societal rules" (Waxman 248).

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"When he flings a book at her, however, she rails against him, the first act of rebellion readers see" (Waxman 247

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"I now see how Jane, with Edward somewhat chastened, is able to use her strength, financial autonomy, and feminist consciousness to form a marriage with a man no longer her master" (Waxman 245).

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"At Thornfield, she grew in feminist consciousness, but was still reliant on salary and the approval of her master and dreamed of marrying him" (Waxman 244

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"I didn't appreciate how much emotional independence and moral strength she was developing while apart from Rochester" (Waxman 243).

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"Moreover, they assert, she was a double for Jane herself" (Dooley 122).

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"Metaphors of fire and fever alternate with metaphors of ice and icy self-control..." (Dooley 122).

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"For a young unmarried woman of a certain class, but without the economic means generally attribute to that class, or a father, or a brother... the life of a governess was the only respectable option" (Dooley 123).

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"Women might never vote, but they might teach, bear, and raise a subset of the working class male voter..." (Dooley 122).

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"Charlotte Brontë's novel was published under a male pseudonym as was common of women writers of her day" (Dooley 122).