226 Quotes by Kate Chopin

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

The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.

Daisies, just starting to close their petals, littered the grass like fallen stars.

If her talent had been ten-fold greater than it was, it would not have surprised him, convinced as he was that he had bequeathed to all of his daughters the germs of a masterful capability, which only depended upon their own efforts to be directed toward successful achievement.

He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation.

The heart jealous of the soul!

Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.

Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.

It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood.