Best Kate Chopin Sayings
- In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual… Any
- one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul Awakens
- She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. Concerning
- It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other… Broken
- …there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a… Assertion
- There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. Asleep
- Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love. Bond
- She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him… Acquaintance
- I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in… Aloud
- Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life… Apprehended
- Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees… Asked
- She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or… Breath
- Goodbye -- Because I love you. Goodbye
- I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of… Always Feel
- Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool,… Belong
- She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her… Accustomed
- The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. Beauty
- When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. Came
- A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it. Expect