--- title: "1 Travel Need Quotes By Nellie Bly" description: "1 Travel Need quotes by Nellie Bly. Plus more from Nellie Bly and more Travel Need sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bf/nellie-bly-18221_badass_it-is-impossible-for-you-to-do-it-was-th_193746.jpg" --- > ['IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/it-is-impossible-for-you-to-do-it-was-the-terrible-verdict-in-the/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bf/nellie-bly-18221_badass_it-is-impossible-for-you-to-do-it-was-th_193746.jpg) ## More by Nellie Bly > [“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/energy-rightly-applied-and-directed-will-accomplish-anything/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > ['IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/it-is-impossible-for-you-to-do-it-was-the-terrible-verdict-in-the/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > ['VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/very-well-i-said-angrily-start-the-man-and-i-ll-start-the-same-day/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/i-have-watched-patients-stand-and-gaze-longingly-toward-the-city-they/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/i-had-toward-the-last-been-shut-off-from-all-visitors-and-so-when-the/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/could-i-pass-a-week-in-the-insane-ward-at-blackwell-s-island-i-said-i/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/in-our-short-walks-we-passed-the-kitchen-where-food-was-prepared-for/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [“Compare this with a criminal, who is given every chance to prove his innocence. Who would not rather be a murderer and take the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/compare-this-with-a-criminal-who-is-given-every-chance-to-prove-his/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/i-hardly-expected-the-grand-jury-to-sustain-me-after-they-saw/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [“I said I could and I would. And I did.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/i-said-i-could-and-i-would-and-i-did/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/even-that-was-all-consumed-after-two-days-and-the-patients-had-to-try/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/i-had-never-been-near-insane-persons-before-in-my-life-and-had-not/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/how-can-a-doctor-judge-a-woman-s-sanity-by-merely-bidding-her-good/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/i-had-looked-forward-so-eagerly-to-leaving-the-horrible-place-yet/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-bly/all-the-asylum-clothing-is-made-by-the-patients-but-sewing-does-not/) [Nellie Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-bly/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/travel-need/nellie-bly/#itemlist", "name": "1 Travel Need Quotes By Nellie Bly", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. 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