"The Yellow Wallpaper" Quotes
- "The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - "This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only se it in certain lights, and not clearly then."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - "I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - "There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - "You think you have mastered it, 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, The Yellow Wallpaper - "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 am quite sure it is a woman. By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - "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!"
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - "For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
