Public post in the reader discussion for Far from the Madding Crowd.
Thoughts on: "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language chiefly made by men to express theirs." - Bathsheba Everdene
By moon-kind37
I just read Thomas Hardy’s *Far from the Madding Crowd* for the first time, and wow—I really loved it. There was this line from Bathsheba that kept popping back into my head (along with a couple other moments), and I’m curious what everyone else thought about it.