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

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

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.

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

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

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