I'm not a servant. I'm a prisoner. So will you be when you grow up. The day you come of age, the gates will close around you because you are a woman! If you marry, everything you own will become the property of your husband. If you don't marry, every profession will be closed to you but one, and that one is a life of loneliness and humiliation. They lock you up, Louisa! But there's one door they can't lock. They can't imprison your mind. That's why I want you to learn to read. I want you to have your own life.
