"'I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior'" (349).
Jane Austen never married because she never found another man after Tom Lefroy, who made her genuinely happy. When Lizzy is told this, it clearly defines Jane Austen's thoughts on the subject of her own life. She is not a woman who is easily pushed around. If she has no passion towards the subject or scenario, she will not chase after it, but wait until her time comes around to fully enjoy what she is doing. She is a highly respectable woman, much like Elizabeth Bennet, for not sinking to lower levels than what she knows she is capable of reaching. It takes a strong woman, especially in her time period to start writing literature like this and to even think like this. Woman were still gaining their independence and voices.
"Jane Austen's Biography." Jane Austen.org. 14 March 2010. 2010.
http://www.janeausten.org/jane-austen-biography.asp
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