Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.
It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.


"Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913).

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading...

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading...

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading...

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading...