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.
More Quotes from Kate Chopin:
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.Kate Chopin
The past was nothing to her offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant . . .
Kate Chopin
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
Kate Chopin
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
Kate Chopin
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry office
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.
Kate Chopin
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: defenseless, guiseThirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
John Pearson
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
Edward T. Hall