Author: Nellie Bly

Quotes

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 cared for kindly and properly.

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 cared for kindly and properly.

- Nellie Bly

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

- Nellie Bly

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

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

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.

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

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