Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote
You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper pattern], but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
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