Quotes Nellie Bly

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing ...

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the...

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island...

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients ...

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding he...

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - ...

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and...

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible plac...

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and ...

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and...

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they s...

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the ...

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the p...

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate ...

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prep...

It always produces such a lonely, homesick feeling to know o...

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how lit...

NONE but the initiated know what a great question the servan...

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a des...

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to ...

Soon I was crossing the river and nearing New York. Once aga...

The eating was one of the most horrible things. Excepting th...

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of thei...

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients ...