The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.' — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life;… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID. — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
“Compare this with a criminal, who is given every chance to prove his innocence. Who would not rather be a murderer and take the… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
