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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…
• What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe,…
• How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release?…
• I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was…
• 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…
• '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…
• But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt…
• I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored…

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