"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."

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Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press

Nellie Bly

#Desire Quotes #Insane Quotes #Asylums Quotes

“I was not an easy kid.”
“We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.”
“Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.”
“You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.”
“Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?”
“I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.”
“If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.”
“I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures,”

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