The Yellow Wallpaper Quotes

#1. [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#2. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. I am glad my case is not serious! But 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

#4. Another person's success will not hinder yours. Be supportive

Tamika Christy

#5. I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Harry Graf Kessler

#6. Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#7. Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Johnny Carson

#8. If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .

Jacques Maritain

#9. You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've spent so long relying on her that it's sort of become a habit. It's time I relied on myself for a bit and took control of my life.

Nicola Sinclair

#10. My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

Pamela Anderson

#11. John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#12. It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#13. At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.

Conrad Black