- "Another thing quite as noticeable, I had more men try to get up a flirtation with me while I was a box-factory girl than I ever had before. The girls were nice in their manners and as polite as ones reared at home. They never forgot to thank one another for the slightest service, and there was quite a little air of "good form" in many of their actions. I have seen many worse girls in much higher positions than the white slaves of New York." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- A stick beats more ugliness into a person than it ever beats out.
- "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." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- "What is this place?" I asked of the man, who had his fingers sunk into the flesh of my arm. "Blackwell's Island, an insane place, where you'll never get out of"." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- "It is only after one is in trouble that one realises how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world." [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." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- "I always liked fog, it lends such a soft, beautifying light to things that otherwise in the broad glare of day would be rude and commonplace." [Around The World in 72 Days].
- "To have a good brain the stomach must be cared for." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.
- I would like the expert physicians who are condemning me for my action, which has proven their ability, to take a perfectly sane and healthy woman, shut her up and make her sit from 6 A. M. until 8 P. M. on straight-back benches, do not allow her to talk or move during these hours, give her no reading and let her know nothing of the world or its doings, give her bad food and harsh treatment, and see how long it will take to make her insane. Two months would make her a mental and physical wreck. [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
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