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ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
Nellie Bly / Journalist
Accomplish
Badass
Energy
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Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
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I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly / Journalist
Heart
My Heart
Written
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I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
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Impatient
Newspapers
Usual
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ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
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Accepting
Badass
Praise
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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.
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Badass
Insane
Islands
Week
Island
Pass
Ward
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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
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Kindness
Sympathy
Littles
Trouble
World
Little
After
How
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'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
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Men
Badass
He Man
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I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like
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Action
Ideas
Insane Person
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I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
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Insane
Persons
Life My Life Never
Actions
Near
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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.
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Asylums
Insane
Islands
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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.
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Funny
Farewell
Sight
Buildings
Comrades
Despairing
Glance
Stone
Wagon
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But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.
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Insane
Insanity
Islands
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I 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.
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Girl
Crazy
Disagreeable
Duty
Poor
Results
Shirk
Unfortunate
Enact
Follow
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I 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
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Asking
Doctors
Sanity
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I 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.
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Doctors
Doubted
Sane
Assure
Released
Telling
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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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Asylums
Convinced
Creatures
Desire
Helpless
Insane
Life God Always
Asylum
Cared
Properly
Thoroughly
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I 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.
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Insane
Release
Thinking
Avail
Minded
Plead
Weep
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I 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
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Leaving
Pain
Sunlight
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I 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.
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Horrible
Leaving
Pain
Release
Sunlight
Eagerly
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People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
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Giving
Length
People
Thinking
World People Never
Asylum
Ending
Event
Seemed
Welcomed
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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
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Cities
Heaven
Mean
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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.
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Heaven
Liberty
Likelihood
Watched
Enter
Further
Gaze
Near
Patients
Toward
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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!
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Comparison
Driven
Easier
Faults
Prison
Probability
Would Be
Horrors
How Much
Tomb
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Even 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
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Trying
Two
Water
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Even 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.
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Beef
Choke
Consumed
Mutton
Potatoes
Salt
Seasoning
Water
Fish
Days
Butter
Patients
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I 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.
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Advise
Court
Different
Grand Jury
Jury
Made
Saws
Report
Grand
Saw
Hardly
Proposed
Sustain
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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.
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Good Morning
Imagination
Morning
Bidding
Doctors
Release
Sanity
Sick
Useless
Judge
Doctor
Woman
Hear
Her
Merely
Refusing
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All 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
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Doe
Fate
Mind
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All 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.
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Busy
Confinement
Fate
Hopeless
Asylum
Clothing
Employ
Faint
Patients
Ponder
Prisoners
Several
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In 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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Beautiful
Bread
Doctors
Grapes
Hungry
Nice
Prepared
Walks
Fruits
Increased
Nurses
Passed
Tenfold
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I 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
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Asylums
Giving
Lasts
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I 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.
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Consent
Glad
Peter
Visitors
Willing
Asylum
Came
Charge
Last
Mine
Shut
Toward
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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.
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Body
Breathe
Forever
Form
Human Form
Lips
Madness
Missing
Mysterious
Mysterious Things
Perpetual
Silence
Watched
Exist
Patients
Sealed
Whose
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'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'
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Men
Badass
Talking
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