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I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

Kate Chopin

Children, Giving Up, Revealing

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.122

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She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

Kate Chopin

Rights, Notion, Eternal

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.170

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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 days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

Kate Chopin

Passing By, Broken, Leaving

Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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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 the mad pace.

Kate Chopin

People, Mad, Personality

Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

Kate Chopin

Delirium Tremens, Soul, Contentment

Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow

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The delicious breath of rain was in the air.

Kate Chopin

Rain, Air, Breaths

"A Vocation and a Voice: Stories".

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Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'

Kate Chopin

Falling In Love, Heart, Presidential

Kate Chopin (2013). “The Awakening: And Selected Short Stories - Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, Respectable Woman, Kiss, Pair of Silk Stockings, Locket, Reflection (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.115, Lulu Press, Inc

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A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

Kate Chopin

Air, Wings, Broken

Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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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 was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

Kate Chopin

Personality, Special, Details

Kate Chopin (2006). “Awakening EasyRead Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! 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 voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Kate Chopin

Sea, Voice, Seductive

1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Kate Chopin

Light, Dawn, Awakening

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistance with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

Kate Chopin

Powerful, Believe, Men

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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

Wine, Voice, Sound

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.48

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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 life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

Kate Chopin

Sorry, Missing, Mind

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.278

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Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Kate Chopin

Love, Sympathy, Dream

Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.29, Kate Chopin

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…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- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

Kate Chopin

Powerful, Believe, Persistence

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The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.

Kate Chopin

Cities, Atmosphere, Way

"The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, www.theguardian.com. 1899.

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Kate Chopin

Tangled, Soul, Murmuring

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

Kate Chopin

Morning, Night, Despondency

Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.163, Broadview Press

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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

Kate Chopin

Smile, Clever, Eye

Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad (2004). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

Kate Chopin

Fire, Light, Glowing

Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.201, Booklassic

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The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

Kate Chopin

Spring, Earth, Benediction

Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.800, Delphi Classics

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You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

Kate Chopin

Dream, Boys, Impossible Things

"The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

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She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)

Kate Chopin

Dog, Father, Distance

Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.166, Booklassic

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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

Kate Chopin

Summer, Mother, Husband

Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.19

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Born: February 8, 1850
Died: August 22, 1904
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