Kate Chopin Quotes


Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.


Citations

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, pp. 216-217.

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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
  • Born: February 8, 1850
  • Died: August 22, 1904
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer

Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and is one of the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage.