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“Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent al...”
“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”
“Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one i...”
“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”
“The latest and highest form of Feminism has great promise for the world. It postulates womanhood free, strong, clean and conscious of its power and duty.”
“For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia — and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir...”
“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 dri...”
“A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”
“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an al...”
“The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”
“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.”
“I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.”
“There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”
“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...”
“It becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the women behind it is as plain as can be. I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I ...”
“Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”
“A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath ...”
“Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!”
“I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!”
“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”
