夏洛特·勃朗特（Charlotte Bronte，1816-1855），英国维多利亚时期著名的女作家。她以关注女性生命体验而著称，她创造的带有觉醒女性意识的女性形象为人们所称颂，被认为是最伟大的女性主义作家之一。夏洛特写作《简·爱》只用了不到一年时间，稿子交出去后，出版商大为惊喜，通宵不眠地审读，决定马上出版。两个月后，《简·爱》就问世了，一经出版即在当时的英国文坛引起轰动，大获成功。

宽容

努力忘掉她的刻薄，和这种刻薄引起的愤慨，不是能让你更快乐吗？生命太短暂了，时间用于滋养自己的仇恨、记住别人的过错，实在是太浪费了。

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

如何与他人相处

在你未来的人生道路上，你常常会发现不由自主地被当做知己，去倾听你熟人的隐秘。你的高明之处不在于谈论你自己，而在于倾听别人谈论自己。

In the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances’ secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves

坚强

假如你避免不了，就得去忍受。不能忍受生命中注定要忍受的事情，就是软弱和愚蠢的表现。

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.