ons where women struggle for the same rights and freedoms of men.
             In fact, Chopin shied away from such affiliations. Seyersted estimates
             that this is probably because Chopin regarded these feminists as
             "unrealistic when they so closely allied themselves with efforts to elevate
             men to their own supposedly very high level of purity" (Seyersted).
             Instead, Chopin's thoughts and attitudes are more like those of George
             Sand, "who felt that woman largely had the same drives as man and therefore
             also should have his rights'"(Seyersted). She was more concerned with her
             character's inner spirit than their outward rights.
             Chopin's husband died of swamp fever in 1882 and she ran the family's
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