“ She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly. Kate Chopin
“ She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that b… Kate Chopin
“ An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her so… Kate Chopin
“ A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it. Kate Chopin
“ The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The… Kate Chopin
“ 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 like a first breath of freedom. Kate Chopin
“ The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature tak… Kate Chopin
“ Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to… Kate Chopin
“ She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. Kate Chopin
“ 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 own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a ri… Kate Chopin
“ The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Kate Chopin
“ ...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. 'The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice… Kate Chopin
“ Mrs.Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a chararacteristic hitherto contrary to her nature. Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she… Kate Chopin
“ She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband’… Kate Chopin
“ Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. It was not a condition of life which fitt… Kate Chopin
“ It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion. 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 was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was be… Kate Chopin
“ Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse. Kate Chopin
“ …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 private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so… Kate Chopin
