Identity Quote by Kate Chopin

“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.”

— Amanda Coplin

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“She wished to appear only in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh yes, she was quite vain! And her mysterious adornment had lasted…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.”

— Thomas Hardy

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one…

— Ian McEwan

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.”

— David Foenkinos

“She had a wild imagination, and sometimes she could fool herself.”

— Kimberly Raiser

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“She even takes the goings-on of fictitious characters personally.”

— Laura Buzo

“Her self, then, was represented in her books.”

— Claire Messud