The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper Quotes

Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Yellow Wallpaper.

Freedom and Confinement Quotes

He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on. (1.14)

Madness Quotes

I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-ma...

Gender Quotes

My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing. (1.11)

Literature and Writing Quotes

Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. (1.14)

Society and Class Quotes

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. (1.1)