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Kate Chopin was an American author known for her pioneering works in feminist literature. Her most famous novel, "The Awakening," explores themes of female independence and identity. She is remembered as a significant figure in early American literature and a trailblazer for women writers. Here are 62 of her quotes:

Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him. (Kate Chopin)
one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference. View quote
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. View quote
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Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage. View quote
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Edna wondered if they had all gone mad, to be talking and clamoring at that rate. She herself could think of nothing to say about Mexico or the Mexicans. View quote
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The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded. View quote
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided. View quote
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There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone. (Kate Chopin)
She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Goodbye -- Because I love you. View quote
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She could only realize that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes. View quote
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Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. View quote
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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. View quote
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. View quote
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The delicious breath of rain was in the air. View quote
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The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant. View quote
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills. (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. View quote
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I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul. View quote
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? View quote
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. View quote
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Kate Chopin

Occupation: American Author
Born: February 8, 1850
Died: August 22, 1904
Quotes count: 62
Wikipedia: Kate Chopin

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