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
Topics: Authors & Writing
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
—Kate Chopin
Topics: Beginnings
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.
—Kate Chopin
Topics: Love
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
—Kate Chopin
Topics: Prejudice, Tradition
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