To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters | MASTERPIECE
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Charlotte: Why is it that a woman’s lot is so very different to a man’s? I’ve never felt inferior. Have you? Intellectually. Why is it that we have so very few opportunities? You or I could do almost anything we could set our minds to. But no. All we can realistically do is plan a school, a modest enough school that no one wants to come to. Why is it that the woman’s lot is to be perpetually infantilized or else invisible? And powerless to do anything about it?

Emily: Did he never write back to you? Heger?

Charlotte: No. 

Emily: Hmm. 

Charlotte: Anne says you’ve written some poems. Have you ever thought about publishing them? 

Emily: No.

Charlotte: It’s just that…the thing is, you see, I’ve written some verses, too. And if between us we could accumulate enough materials to think about publishing a small volume…

Emily: And then pored over and rubbished and ridiculed by anyone who might choose to waste their money on it? Not likely.