..Women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts...they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded...to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano... 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. Jane Eyre