Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 5, 1864 Death: January 27, 1922
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 free for me again, t….
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'.
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us ….
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..
I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall..
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were care….
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 ones know it is ….
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING..
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers..
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world..
Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant..
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID..
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 and all kinds….
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, pepper or butter….
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 of my sanity, the more t….
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 the assumed role of insanity..
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER..
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 seems s….
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 did, and their ….
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.