I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant. - Nellie Bly
Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
- Nellie Bly
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… - Nellie Bly
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…
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. - Nellie Bly
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 was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. - Nellie Bly
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
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 … - Nellie Bly
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 …
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. - Nellie Bly
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
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 … - 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 sick ones know it is …
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. - Nellie Bly
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.' - Nellie Bly
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
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