“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” Self Book:The Awakening Source: The Awakening
“She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.” Self Author:Kate Chopin
“I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.” GivingChildrenSelfGiving UpMy Children Author:Kate Chopin
“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.” WorldSelfBecomingAssumingAwakeningCastingGarments Author:Kate Chopin
“…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.” MenBelieveSelfSometimesMatterWould BeFacesPowerfulMysteryCreaturesMen And WomenFellowsBlindPossessionImpulsePersistenceStrongestAssertionBindingUnsolved Mysteries Author:Kate Chopin
