“If ever asked to give her opinion of divorce, she might have replied that the question being one which did not immediately concern her, its remoteness had removed it from the range of her inquiry. And the element that was to make possible such a union was trust in each other’s love, honor, courtesy, tempered by the reserving clause of readiness to meet the consequences of reciprocal liberty.” From “A Point at Issue!” Each was to remain a free integral of humanity, responsible to no dominating exactions of so-called marriage laws. Marriage was to be a form, that while fixing legally their relation to each other, was in no wise to touch the individuality of either that was to be preserved intact. “In entering upon their new life they decided to be governed by no precedential methods. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!” From The Awakening. “But the beginning of things, of a a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. “When the girl looked up into her face, with murmured thanks, Fedora bent down and pressed a long, penetrating kiss upon her mouth.” Description of Fedora in “Fedora.” “A person can’t have everything in this world and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.” From “The Kiss.” “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” Edna Pontellier in The Awakening “The way to love a woman is to think first of her happiness.” Wallace Offdean in “A No-Account Creole.” She wanted to draw close to him and whisper against his cheek-she did not care what-as she might have done if she had not been a respectable woman.” Description of Mrs. “She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him with the sensitive tips of her fingers upon the face or the lips. So long as she did not want him, he had no right to her,-no more than her husband had.” From “Athénaïse.” When the time came that she wanted him,-as he hoped and believed it would come,-he felt he would have a right to her. He could not conceive or dream of it making a difference. “That she was married made no particle of difference to Gouvernail. “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.” Edna Pontellier in The Awakening. She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.” Description of Mrs. “She was not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself, nor was she striving to explain to her satisfaction the motive of her action. “‘It means,’ he answered lightly, ‘that the child is not white it means that you are not white.'” Armand Aubigny in “Désirée’s Baby.” “She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” Description of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening. “So the storm passed and every one was happy.” The closing sentence of “The Storm.” There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” Description of Mrs. “There would be no one to live for her during those coming years she would live for herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life-that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” Description of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening. “Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself.
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