![Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/charlotte-perkins-gilman-quotes-34586-never-in-all-her-life-had.png)
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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