Nellie Bly's Profile
Brief about Nellie Bly: By info that we know Nellie Bly was born at 1970-01-01. And also Nellie Bly is American Journalist.
Some Nellie Bly's quotes. Goto "Nellie Bly's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Farewell, Freedom, GaveWhat 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.
Tags: Cannot, Human, SilenceIt is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Tags: After, Kindness, SympathyCould I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Tags: Insane, Said, WeekHow 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.
Tags: Good, Judge, MorningI 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.
Tags: Desire, God, LifeI 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.
Tags: After, Changes, WhileI 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.
Tags: Hell, Liberty, LifeI had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
Tags: Idea, Insane, LifeAll the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's 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.
Tags: Busy, Mind, ThoughtsEven 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.
Tags: After, Days, TryI 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.
Tags: Asking, Point, TellingI had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
Tags: Forward, God, PainI 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.
Tags: Friends, Give, RatherI 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.
Tags: Insane, Minded, PowerI 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.
Tags: Crazy, Girl, PoorIn 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.
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