“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”

“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”

“A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly”

“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”

“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.”

“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.”