"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and 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. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex."

The book is an autobiography of Jane Eyre herself, who narrates to us with adult gaze the adventures of her childhood all through adulthood as we see how her life changes before our eyes; always talking directly to the reader, sharing her thoughts while life was happening to her. Although it's fairly known that this book is a romance, like Wuthering Heights by her sister Emily, what's really important is the journey we do with her until she reaches emotional and spiritual independence. We read her consciousness and tribulations, her fight between love and duty, between limiting herself and being who she really is, between suppressing her strength and desire of independence and finding love: her journey to reach a balance between her emotions.