Badass Quote by Nellie Bly

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”

— 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…

— 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;…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

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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

“I said I could and I would. And I did.”

— 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…

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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

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…

— Nellie Bly