Jane Eyre said: she would rather be abused in her aunt's house.

Do you think that just because I am poor, lowly, unattractive, and short, I have neither a soul nor a heart? You think wrong! I have a soul and a heart just like you! If God had given me a little beauty and a great deal of wealth, I would have made it difficult for you to leave me, just as it is difficult for me to leave you now. I am not speaking to you now by custom, convention, or even by flesh and blood; this is my heart speaking to your heart, as if we had both left this world, and both stood together before God, equal to each other-as we already are.