Quote#Friendship
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to…
Quote byCharlotte Perkins Gilman · 1860–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913)..
English (original)
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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