Quote by Kate Chopin

“It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she…

— Kate Chopin

“She gives physical presence to the depths of the human psyche.”

— Haruki Murakami

“She is but one small speck in a cosmos that is forever changing, and one’s position in the world can be only measured by…

— Christina Escamilla

“As a scholar, it was her job to see things in relationship to other things; the only thing she couldn't see in a relationship…

— E.J. Levy

“she belonged to the great race of human beings who regard life as a series of piracies of all powers.”

— Christina Stead

“For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and she realized…

— Marisa Silver

“She was secure in the miniature world she had built; the two other men seemed distant planets, each in his own sphere of memory…

— Michael Ondaatje

“She knew she lived in a man’s world, and she reacted accordingly”

— C.J. Roberts

“It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then…

— Diane Schoemperlen

“but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem this gave…

— Isabel Allende

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith