Kate Chopin Quotes

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

In this country I am my own master and may do as I please

Self Emancipation

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

Tell freedom I said hello.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Individual liberty is individual power.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I appreciate individualism.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.