"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."

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Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.82, Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

#Morning Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.”
“Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.”
“This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.”
“Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.”
“Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.”
“Those who give up cannot gain victory.”
“All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”
“There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.”

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