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''I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will'' is quoted by Charlotte Bronte in her novel Jane Eyre.

Charlotte Brontë (married name Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls & pseudonym Currer Bell) was born in 1816 & died in 1855. She was an English novelist noted for Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition.
- This novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction.
- She later wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853).

Source: Britannica.com