All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. — 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
