Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.  My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath; a source of little visible delight, but necessary, Nelly, I am Heathcliff!  He's always, always in my mind:  not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myslef, but as my own being."

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally:  but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and field for their efforts ... 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."