Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Wallpaper Quotes

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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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman