Here are some timeless quotes from Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, written in 1899. The story of a woman discovering herself in age when women's choices were limited.

1. T h e A w a k e n i n g
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h e r e a r e s e l e c t e d q u o t e s
f r o m t h e n o v e l . V i s i t
s o n g s i n s i d e . c o m t o l i s t e n t o
t h e p o d c a s t .
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2. The Awakening
KATE CHOPIN
“The voice of the sea is seductive, never
ceasing, whispering, clamoring,
murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in
abysses of solitude.”

3. The Awakening
KATE CHOPIN
"There were days when she was
unhappy, she did not know why,--when
it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or
sorry, to be alive or dead; when life
appeared to her like a grotesque
pandemonium and humanity like worms
struggling blindly toward invetible
annihilation."

4. The Awakening
KATE CHOPIN
“It was not despair, but it seemed to her
as if life were passing by, leaving its
promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet
there were other days when she
listened, was led on and deceived by
fresh promises which her youth had held
out to her.”

5. The Awakening
KATE CHOPIN
“She had all her life long been
accustomed to harbor thoughts and
emotions which never voiced
themselves.”

6. The Awakening
KATE CHOPIN
One of these days," she said, "I'm going
to pull myself together for a while and
think - try to determine what character of
a woman I am, for, candidly, I do not
know. By all the codes which I am
acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked
specimen of the sex. But some way I
can't convince myself that I am. I must
think about it.”

7. The Awakening
KATE CHOPIN
“She was becoming herself and daily
casting aside that fictitious self which we
assume like a garment with which to
appear before the world.”

8. T h e A w a k e n i n g
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V i s i t w w w . s o n g s i n s i d e . c o m
a n d l i s t e n t o t h e p o d c a s t
e p i s o d e w h i l e y o u a r e t h e r e !
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