226 Quotes by Kate Chopin

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone.She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

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.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

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

The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

She liked money as well as most women, and accepted it with no little satisfaction.

She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.