226 Quotes by Kate Chopin

Then the candor of the woman’s whole existence, which every one might read, and which formed so striking a contrast to her own habitual reserve – this might have furnished a link. Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.

Don’t part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, -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. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by “life’s delirium.” It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression.

I know I shall like it, like the feeling of freedom and independence.

What shall we do there?” “Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.

He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother’s place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business.

I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier’s possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose.

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 soul’s summer day.