Quotes by : Kate Chopin

Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which....

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions.....

…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe....

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about....

It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced....

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have....

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course....

I wonder if any night on earth will be like this one. It is like a night in a dream. The people about....