Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select… - Kate Chopin

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Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'

Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1851 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels.

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Pen Names: La Tour

Birth Name: Katherine O'Flaherty

Alternative Names: Catherine O'Flaherty

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The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.

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

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