Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Now 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!"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman