Quotes+by+Kate+chopin

Back to Supplemental Materials Quotes:  "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  “There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.” - Kate Chopin   “He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain -- no matter what -- after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.”

"He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it?"- Kate Chopin pg. 7

"The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels." -Kate Chopin pg. 10

"Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse." -Kate Chopin pg.102

"...looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage." Kate Chopin pg. 3