"ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE……" — Nellie Bly
"ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER."
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28 Quotes by Nellie Bly
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On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we…
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
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How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas…
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while…
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COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND…
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ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
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'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN…
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'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT…
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The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it…
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But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made…
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I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more…
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I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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