Nellie Bly Quotes

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• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the…
• 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…
• 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 sick…
• I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they…
• ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
• COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.
• ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
• '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,…
• 'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
• 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.
• But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up…
• I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them…
• I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends…
• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt,…
• 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 be…
• 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…
• I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like
• I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it…
• They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would…
• In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes…

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