The Jane Eyre energy. "I am a free human being with an independent will."#janeeyre#NationalYearofReading2026 #BookTok#womenpower #pfy

Am I a machine without feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, the time solace and heartless? I have as much soul as you, and full as much art. And if God had blessed me with beauty and wealth, I could make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for I to leave you. I don't wish to treat you as inferior. Yet you can only meet a speaker. I'm not speaking to you for a mortal flesh. It is my spirit that addresses your spirit. As if we passed through the grave and stood it God's feet equal. As we are by your free human beings, an independent will which I now exert to leave you.