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She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Kate Chopin

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

The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.

Kate Chopin

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish... like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

Kate Chopin

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

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Born: February 8, 1850

Died: August 22, 1904 (aged 54)

Bio: Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty, was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald.

Known for:

The Awakening (1899)
The Story of an Hour (1894)
Bayou folk (1894)
A night in Acadie (1897)
A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897)

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