I'm going to 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 codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.
Kate Chopin (2000). “The Awakening and Other Stories: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.315, Modern Library
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