Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Source: Jane Eyre, ch. 29, 1847.
-- Charlotte Bronte, (Apr 21 1816-1855), English novelist, poet; She was the most successful of the three Bronte sisters; wrote of women's drive for independence in Jane Eyre, 1847.