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Nellie Bly Facts
Nellie Bly Is Born On May 5, 1864
Nellie Bly Zodiac Sign Is Taurus
Nellie Bly Zodiac Symbol Is Bull
Nellie Bly Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Wood
Nellie Bly Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Rat
Nellie Bly Occupation Is Journalist
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Nellie Bly Quotes
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ ones mind. After several months confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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. - Nellie Bly Quotes
Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwells Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning. - Nellie Bly Quotes
How can a doctor judge a womans sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. - Nellie Bly Quotes
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of Gods creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 they doubted it. - Nellie Bly Quotes
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that Gods sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 Quotes
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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. - Nellie Bly Quotes
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. - Nellie Bly Quotes
It always produces such a lonely, homesick feeling to know others are eating, and we havent a chance, even if we are not hungry. - Nellie Bly Quotes
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. - Nellie Bly Quotes
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 something to think about as well as talk of. - Nellie Bly Quotes
Soon I was crossing the river and nearing New York. Once again I was a free girl after ten days in the mad-house on Blackwells Island. - Nellie Bly Quotes
The eating was one of the most horrible things. Excepting the first two days after I entered the asylum, there was no salt for the food. - Nellie Bly Quotes
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors! - Nellie Bly Quotes
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 form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. - Nellie Bly Quotes
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