"I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper."

"There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will."

"The latest and highest form of Feminism has great promise for the world. It postulates womanhood free, strong, clean …"

"For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia — and beyond. During …"

"Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatmen…"

"A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve t…"

"The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on,…"

"The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

"You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper pattern], but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a b…"

"This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it…"