Status Updates From The Yellow Wallpaper

“I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find ni a toystore”

“…here I am a comparative burden already! Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able — to dress and entertain, and order things.”
Depression

" If we had not used it that blessed child would have! What a fortunate escape! Why, I wouldn’t have a child of mine, an impressionable little thing, live in such a room for worlds.

I never thought of it before, but it is lucky that John kept me here after all. I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see."

"I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished."

"I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store."

"I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more."

"If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?

My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing."