The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

“There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“Of course I never mention it to them any more, - I am too wise, - but I keep watch of it all the same.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“Of course I never mention it to them anymore - I am too wise - but I keep watch of it all the same.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows 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. I don't like it a bit.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“I cry at nothing, and I cry most of the time.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“A waving spot of sunshine, a signal light that caught the eye at once in a place of commonplace houses, and all the dreary dimness of a narrow city street.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“John is so pleased to see me improve! He laughed a little the other day, and said I seemed to be flourishing in spite of my wall-paper.
I turned it off with a laugh. I had no intention of telling him it was Because of the wall-paper - he would make fun of me. He might even want to take me away.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.

But I find I get pretty tired when I try.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition

“I never saw a worse paper in my life.
One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study,
and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide–plunge off
at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition