“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
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Relief From Obligation
“There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual. Every step
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Belong to Self Alone
“Conditions would some way adjust themselves, she felt; but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.” –The Awakening and
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Resolved to Live and Feel
“She began to do as she liked and to feel as she liked…She had resolved never to take another step backward.” –The Awakening and Selected
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Mist Lifting
“She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster
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Devilishly Wicked Specimen
“…pull myself together for a while and think—try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don’t know. By all the
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