Above the Meadows, In Dreams

"She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility."

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

— 4 months ago with 16 notes

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"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily disturbing. Tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

— 6 months ago with 5 notes

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amandaonwriting:

Breaking down the real fan bases for The Great Gatsby, Mrs Dalloway & Lolita

Read all three at university. Don’t like either of them very much. Prefer The Awakening: Only just part of the American Lit canon, almost feminist. I’m such a hipster…

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— 8 months ago with 1160 notes

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"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself. I can’t make it more clear; it’s only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me."

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

— 10 months ago with 3 notes

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