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

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  2. There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  3. Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  4. the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  5. And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  6. John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  7. Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  8. 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. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  9. Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  10. 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
  11. It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  12. But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  13. It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  14. It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  15. Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red. – Molly Caldwell Crosby
  16. I want to save the world but I haven’t worked out a way to save myself yet. – Rae Earl
  17. People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can. – Simon S Tam
  18. When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of being driven by destiny. – Gugu Mona
  19. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. – Suzy Kassem
  20. To see another as God intended, we must come from a place of loving inside ourselves, as God intended. – Lori Cash Richards
  21. I never intended to become a zombie huntress; I had only intended to protest prom, high school’s last bastion of patriarchal society. – GG Silverman
  22. When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED. – Dr Seuss
  23. I’d rather be underappreciate, and under worked, than over appreciate and over worked. – noelsugarcube
  24. I don’t need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me. – Anne L Parks
  25. Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  26. Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he’s been. – Taylor Rhodes
  27. It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper. – Laura Whitcomb
  28. Doesn’t this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb. – Terry Pratchett
  29. I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone’s revenge for life’s disappointments. – Keith Laumer
  30. Aronson’s first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. – Elliot Aronson
  31. People aren’t crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world. – JSB Morse
  32. Crazy people. They never think they’re crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them. – Rick Yancey
  33. Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right – the world is crazy. – Daniel M Greenberger
  34. Jack’s doctors have told him he is crazy-¦ but, the truth is, it’s the Voices who are crazy, not him. – Jennifer Daydreamer
  35. Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy. – Jen Malone
  36. Are you sure this isn’t crazy?- -œOh, I’m sure it is crazy. But isn’t that our thing? Or have you gotten boring now? – Cindi Madsen
  37. But each time you use spirit, you’re more likely to go crazy.--œAlready crazy about you, Sage. – Richelle Mead
  38. Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy. – Chuck Klosterman
  39. I’m crazy about him and I’m crazy without him! – Amy Shanahan
  40. Maybe I was crazy about you. Maybe I was just crazy. – samin

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