Society norms are the thing of the past with today’s day and age. People have more freedom and equality is immensely emphasized but there are still struggles we go through.  Jane Eyre and Audre Lorde face a problem by growing up at a different time where their status in life was metaphorically labeled as “the submissive”. Whether it was Jane, a powerless 10- year- old orphan or Lorde a black lesbian poet isolated from the world, both struggling with gender roles. Their futures are oppressed and they both demand to be heard.  Jane comes from an abusive household where her cousins and aunt abuse her mentally and physically making Jane desire liberty and change. In that society, few opportunities were available for women and Jane wanting to be a governor which made things worse for her.

I liked Lorde’s quote “We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and ourselves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.” This quote moved me because it’s the truth. Truth is what we fear yet what we seek to find and with the words of Audrey Lorde it points out an issue even though she was scared to even exist, she would still speak because speech from other historical women was her motivation to live.

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel, they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts just as their brothers do…”. This quote expressed by Jane was so simply put. She explains that women’s roles shouldn’t only be household chores but much more than that and there should be no gender inequalities because we all feel the same way therefore should be allowed to be in the same positions.