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“She had resolved to never take another step backward.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

tags: edna-pontellier, feminism, kate-chopin, mgg, standing-up-for-oneself, the-awakening

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“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

tags: psychology, short-story, writing

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“I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.”
― Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy

tags: amy-engel, brave, bravery, choice, courage, decisions, love, string, the-book-of-ivy

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“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

tags: feminism, the-yellow-wallpaper

67 likes

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

tags: dissatisfaction

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