Quotes About Edna Pontellier

#1. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.

Kate Chopin

#2. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.

Kate Chopin

#3. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Kate Chopin

#4. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

Kate Chopin

#5. She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

#6. How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things.

Kate Chopin

#7. She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Kate Chopin

#8. The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

Kate Chopin

#10. As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

Parker J. Palmer

#11. Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.

Wayne Dyer

#12. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

#13. The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Ellen Key

#14. Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House.

Jim Butcher

#15. The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Kate Chopin

#16. Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Kate Chopin