Quote by: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very ' bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - it strangles so:...


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Author Bio


  • NameCharlotte Perkins Gilman
  • DescriptionAmerican Short story and non-fiction writer, novelist, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
  • BornJuly 3, 1860
  • DiedAugust 17, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist; Philosopher; Sociologist
  • WorksThe Yellow Wallpaper; Herland; Women And Economics
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame