Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855
Birthday: April 21
Death: March 31
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
source: Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.80, The Floating Press
topic: Strong, Selfish, Evil, Evil Spirits, Villette