The Yellow Wall-Paper Quotes

“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 Yellow Wall-Paper

“The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you."
"I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may be better in the evening, when you are here, but it is worse in the morning when you are away."
"Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug; "she shall be as sick as she pleases!”
― 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