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The Yellowish Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"But I MUST say what I feel and call back in some mode — it is such a relief! Just the endeavour is getting to exist greater than the relief."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Newspaper

"At present why should that man have fainted? Only he did,and right beyond my path past the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!"
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what footling I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things"
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every creative sin."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Xanthous Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, just 1 expects that in union."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"I am glad my instance is not serious! Simply these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Xanthous Wall-Paper

"You call back you have mastered it, but just as y'all go well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. Information technology slaps you lot in the face, knocks you downwards, and tramples upon you. Information technology is like a bad dream."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

"I really have discovered something at last. Through watching and then much at night, when it changes and so, I have finally found out. The front end pattern does movement - and no wonder! The woman backside shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her itch shakes information technology all over. Then in the very ' bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she but takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - information technology strangles and so:..."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Xanthous Wall-Paper

"It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the xanthous things I ever saw - not cute ones like buttercups, but one-time foul, bad yellow things."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Xanthous Wall-Paper

"John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows in that location is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
It is getting to be a neat effort for me to think directly. Just this nervous weakness I suppose."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellowish Wall-Newspaper

"I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and nosotros all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and go more amusement and terror out of bare walls and obviously furniture than most children could find in a toy-store."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellowish Wall-Paper

"John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows in that location is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellowish Wallpaper

"It is so hard to talk with John virtually my example, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Xanthous Wall-Paper

"He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.
I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the 24-hour interval; he takes all care from me, and and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"The front pattern DOES move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes information technology!"
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellowish Wallpaper

"The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
Information technology is a irksome yet lurid orangish in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated information technology! I should hate it myself if I had to alive in this room long"
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Xanthous Wall-Paper

"If a md of loftier standing, and i's ain husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really cypher the matter with one but temporary nervous low—a slight hysterical tendency—what is i to do? . . .
So I accept phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am admittedly forbidden to "work" until I am well once more.
Personally, I disagree with their ideas . . ."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is getting to be a great effort for me
to call back direct. But this nervous weakness
I suppose."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.
Love John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real hostage reasonable talk with him the other solar day, and tell him how I wish he would let me become and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia.
But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand up information technology after I got there; and I did not make out a very good instance for myself, for I was crying before I had finished.
Information technology is getting to exist a great endeavor for me to remember straight. But this nervous weakness I suppose.
And beloved John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and saturday by me and read to me till it tired my head.
He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take intendance of myself for his sake, and keep well."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"The colour is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"Information technology was moonlight. The moon shines in all around just as the dominicus does."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

"Por muito tempo fui incapaz de distinguir o que era aquela coisa em segundo plano, aquele subpadrão indistinto, mas agora estou bastante certa de que se trata de uma mulher."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

"He says no one but myself tin can aid me out of information technology, that I must use my will and self-command and not permit whatever light-headed fancies run away with me."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellowish Wall-Paper

"John dearest!" said I in the gentlest phonation, "the key is downward past the front steps, nether a plantain leaf!"
That silenced him for a few moments.
Then he said—very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling!"
"I can't," said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain foliage!"
And then I said it once more, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction."
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"At nighttime in whatsoever kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, information technology becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the adult female behind it is as evidently every bit can be"
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Newspaper

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