I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanWoman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanIt is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanNow why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
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