I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I re — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I re — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I re — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I re — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I re — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
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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, The Yellow Wall-Paper
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