Kate Chopin

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

— Kate Chopin

“I don’t hate him,” Athenaise answered … “It’s jus’ being married that I detes’ an’ despise.”

— Kate Chopin

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her—the light which, showing the way, forbids it … but the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

— Kate Chopin

The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it ….

— Kate Chopin