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Kate Chopin – amerykańska pisarka i feministka.

Feministka pierwszej fali. Pochodzenie miała głównie kreolskie z Luizjany, i to właśnie Luizjana najczęściej stanowi miejsce akcji w jej utworach.

Jej ojciec był odnoszącym sukcesy biznesmenem, imigrantem z Irlandii, zginął jednak, gdy miała 4 lata w wyniku zawalenia się mostu pod pociągiem.

Czytała dużo książek, ukończyła szkołę średnią w 1868, potem w 1870 wyszła za mąż za Oscara Chopina. Zamieszkali w Nowym Orleanie, urodziła szóstkę dzieci, zaczęła kwestionować autorytet Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego.

Po śmierci męża w 1882 wróciła do St. Louis. Pisać zaczęła, by poradzić sobie z załamaniem nerwowym. Była dość szeroko drukowana, jednak zarabiała na inwestycjach, nie na pisaniu. Najbardziej znana jest jej powieść Przebudzenie, o niezadowolonej z małżeństwa żonie, krytykowana wówczas z przyczyn moralnych. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Luty 1850 – 22. Sierpień 1904  •  Natępne imiona كیت شوبان
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Kate Chopin: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“Goodbye -- Because I love you.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“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.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

The Awakening (1899)

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

The Awakening (1899)
Źródło: The Awakening, and Selected Stories
Kontekst: 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.

“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.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening (1899)

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

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening (1899)

“The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening (1899)

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening (1899)

“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies”

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Kate Chopin

Źródło: The Awakening and Selected Stories

“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“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.”

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“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”

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Kate Chopin

Źródło: The Awakening and Selected Stories

“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening (1899)

“She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

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

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“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.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Story of an Hour

Źródło: The Story of an Hour

“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.”

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Kate Chopin książka The Awakening

Źródło: The Awakening

“And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul… the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.”

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