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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 useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
— Nellie Bly
Tags: imagination, doctor, morning, good

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Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
— Nellie Bly
Tags: insane, week, said, island
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
Tags: own, prison, walk, life
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
Tags: never, hell, city, life
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
— Nellie Bly
Tags: kindness, trouble, only, sympathy, world
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
Tags: madness, body, live, silence
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