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John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
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patriarchy
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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.
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the-yellow-wallpaper
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John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
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love
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat. Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I ..
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irony
love
misunderstanding
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!" That silenced him for a few moments. Then he said--very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling!" "I can't," said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain leaf!" And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in."
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irony
marriage
love
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall. But I don't want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and my brother, only more so! Besides, it is such an undertaking to go so far. I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of..
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love
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious!
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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