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“If you reject my offer, it’s not me that you deny, but God.”( Lamonaca, 250)

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“ Mrs. Reed here experiences the philosophical fear of the superior member of an oppressive hierarchy- - she learns what happens when the other talks back.” ( Losano, 59)

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“ Likewise, when Rochester failed to convince Jane to live with him, since she now knows he is married, he follows his announcement that Jane is a “ thing” by likening her to an animal.” (Losano, 59)

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“ It is crucial of course that Rochester finds Jane’s animality, her “savageness,” to be “beautiful” rather than “bad” (like john) or frightening (like Mrs. Reed).” (Losano, 59)

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“ When she refuses them both, they are clearly suffering from the loss of their own subjecthood as well as from the loss of Jane per se.”( Losano, 56)

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“ Jane is hard to label, after all. In just the first chapter of Jane Eyre, she is called Joan, Miss Eyre, Madame mope, rat, and bad animal—and is called “Jane “ but once”(Losano, 52).

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“ in Choosing to marry Rochester, Jane has forfeited her ability to perform heroic, visible acts of self-renunciation.” (Lamonaca, 257)

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“ Yet feminist scholars must exercise caution: twentieth- century understandings of a woman’s freedom and empowerment are not easily applied to the self- conceptions of Victorian women of faith. “      ( Lamonaca, 246)

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“ janes insistence that an individual’s salvation “should never depend on a fellow-creature.” (Lamonaca, 249)

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“ Despite a long history of criticism which explains Jane’s “ mysterious summons”. ( Lamonaca, 251)

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“ In Jane Eyre, Brontë response to the seemingly in evitable analogy in the 19th century British text that compares white woman with the blacks in order to degrade both groups and assert the need for white male control.” ( Meyer, 250)

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“ hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior: and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading.” ( Meyer, 254)

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“ Instead it draws parallels between slavery and Jane’s social position as one of the disempowered lower middle class. Both Jane and the narrator draw these analogies, not in response to the work Jane has performed but in response to the humiliating attitudes of her class superiors.” ( Meyer, 256)

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“ when Jane describes to Rochester the face she has seen reflected in the mirror, the topoi of racial “otherness” are very evident: she tells him that the face was “fearful and ghastly.” ( Meyer, 253)

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“ Female subordination in sexual relationships, female insurrection and rage against male domination, and the oppressive class position of the female without family ties and a middle-class income.”( Meyer, 249)

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“Rochester’s manipulations of Jane, while also criticizing his destruction of Bertha’s spirit.” (Waxman, 246)

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“ St. John would force her to close up half her identity.” ( Waxman, 258)

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“ women are weak and submissive and men are strong and dominant.” (Waxman, 246)

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“ how close Jane comes to submitting to Rochester’s influence..... he calls her his pet lamb and his friend.”( Waxman, 255)

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“ women Yearn for a role and purpose beyond a kind of robotic, gender-role-performance.( Waxman, 252)

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“ women might never vote, but they might teach, bear, and raise a subset of the working class male voter; they needed to be kept in their places and to educate the next generation of their places and to educate the next generation of their peers to do the same. (Dooley, 122)

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“ Charlotte Brontë it was one of three sisters who wrote under the pseudonym bell: Anne (Acton), Charlotte (Currer), and Emily ( Ellis). (Dooley 125)”

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“For a young unmarried woman of a certain class, but without the economic means generally attributable to that class, or a father, a brother, or an uncle upon who’s care she might depend, the life of a governess was the only respectable option.” ( Dooley 123)

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“ By the middle of the nineteenth century records the women had become the majority patients in public lunatic alyums”

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“ Those less talented or less fortunate might end up on the staff of charity schools like lowwood. Those more fortunate might make marriages to men of sufficient means, allowing them to have a home and children of their own. (Dooley 123)”

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Charlotte Brontë highlights the importance of feminist beliefs in Jane Eyre as St. John and Rochester dehumanize Jane and Bertha using societal beliefs of the Victorian period which illustrates institutional prejudices have the power to restrict people from other beliefs.