“I said I could and I would. And I did.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“To have a good brain the stomach must be cared for.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“A pretty young Hebrew woman spoke so little English I could not get her story except as told by the nurses. They said her name is Sarah Fishbaum, and that her husband put her in the asylum because she had a fondness for other men than himself.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“I felt sure now that no doctor could tell whether people were insane or not, so long as the case was not violent. Later”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“That was the greatest night of my existence. For a few hours I stood face to face with “self!” I”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“VERY EARLY THE OTHER MORNING I started out, not with the pleasure-seekers, but with those who toil the day long that they may live.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“Compare this with a criminal, who is given every chance to prove his innocence. Who would not rather be a murderer and take the chance for life than be declared insane, without hope of escape?”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
Nellie Bly
Born place: in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date May 5, 1864
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“I may not know shit about shit, but I can tell you that when a girl goes running from a party with only a bottle of whiskey for company, something is most definitely bothering her. In my experience, that something usually has a cock attached to it.” Bear exhaled the smoke. “Well,”
― T.M. Frazier, quote from King
“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“تساءلت عن الحافز الذى دفع الامريكيين لمقاومة الاستعمار البريطانى وعن ارادة تجاوزت الحدود لقد كان كثير من زعماء الثورة على ثراء كبير فما الذى دفعهم للمخاطرة باعمالهم وتجارتهم وعض الايدى التى تطعمهم ؟ والمخاطرة بحياتهم ؟ لاشك كان لدى كل منهم اسبابه الخاصة لكن لابد وان قوة جماعية وقفت وراءهم وقدر من الطاقة والحافز وشرارة اذكت الطاقات الفردية فى تلك اللحظة الفريدة من التاريخ
ثم ادركت كنه تلك المحفزات : انها الكلمات
اشعل تلك الشرارة سرد القصة الحقيقية للامبراطورية ونظامها التجارى الانانى والمدمر لذاته فى نهاية المطاف واشعل فضح المعنى الخفى عبر كلمات رجال مثل توم بين وتوماس جيفرسون خيال المواطنين وفتح قلوبهم وعقولهم وبدأ سكان المستعمرات البريطانية فى امريكا فى التساؤل عن السبب وحين فعلوا ذلك اكتشفوا حقيقة جديدة قطعت الطريق على اساليب الخداع والكذب لقد ادركوا الحقيقة الكامنة وراء المظهر الخارجى وفهموا طريقة الامبراطورية البريطانية فى استغلالهم وخداعهم واستعبادهم
ادركوا ان سادتهم الانجليز شكلوا نظاما ثم تمكنوا من اقناع معظم الناس كذبا بان ذلك افضل نظام يمكن للبشرية ان تصل اليه وان بلوغ عالم افضل مرهون بوضع كافة الموارد تحت تصرف ملك انجلترا وان منهج الامبراطورية فى التجارة والسياسة هو الاكثر فعالية وهو الاسلوب الانسانى لمساعدة الاغلبية الكاسحة من البشر بينما كانت الحقيقة تكمن فى ان ذلك النظام لايثرى سوى الاقلية على حساب الاغلبية لقد صمدت هذه الكذبة وما نجم عنها من استغلال وامتدت عقودا من الزمن حتى بدأت ثلة من الفلاسفة ورجال الاعمال والفلاحين والصيادين والمرابطين على الحدود والكتاب والوعاظ يتحدثون عن الحقيقة .”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“you are not like others. You are of neither the Lesser nor the Greater Path. You are a sorcerer, one who knows there are no paths, only magic. And magic may be limited only by the limits of one’s gifts.’ Tomas”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast
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