"I will be your neighbor, your nurse, your housekeeper. I find you lonely: I will be you companion- to read to you, walk with you, to sit with you, to wait on you, to be eyes and hands to you" (Jane Eyre, 385)
"The call me quiet girl, But I'm a riot yeah!"
Jane was certainly not a "quiet girl". Here, she is boldly proposing that she live with Mr. Rochester and be his nurse. In making this proposition Jane was defying societal norms. She was letting her heart guide her rather than masking her emotions behind a sense of propriety. Had Jane been a real person she would have definitely been a "riot". She was to marry her employer, someone of a higher social status, and when returning to Rochester, she decides to call the shots, instead of yielding to a male superior.
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