14 quotes — Gender & Female Agency with full 6-part analysis
“Your pride... his pride... for you are really proud of your defects in understan…”
Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 3, Chapter 15
“You are mistaken, Mr Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration aff…”
Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal Refusal)
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the wil…”
Elizabeth Bennet · Chapter 31
“You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I w…”
Mr Darcy · Chapter 58 (Second Proposal)
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me”
Mr Darcy · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)
“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the…”
Mrs Bennet · Chapter 3
“You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves”
Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a str…”
Mr Bennet · Chapter 20
“Your mother will never be easy till she has exposed herself in every town in Eng…”
Mr Bennet · Chapter 41
“My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every cler…”
Mr Collins · Chapter 19 (Proposal to Elizabeth)
“Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effec…”
Mr Collins · Chapter 19
“I have been used to have my opinion consulted in all matters. I am not in the ha…”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh · Chapter 56 (Confrontation with Elizabeth)
“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You d…”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh · Chapter 56
“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I thi…”
Jane Bennet · Chapter 4