“He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”Kate Chopin book The AwakeningSource: The Awakening
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”Kate Chopin book The AwakeningSource: The Awakening (1899)
“The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.”Kate Chopin book The AwakeningSource: The Awakening
“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 book The AwakeningSource: The Awakening
“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.”Kate Chopin book The AwakeningThe Awakening (1899)
“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 book The AwakeningThe Awakening (1899)
“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 book The AwakeningThe Awakening (1899)