Nellie Bly Quotes

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

“Accept praise for its worth — politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer.”

“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.”

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”

“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.”

“I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.”

“I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.”

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

“Never order food in excess of your body weight.”

“Nonsense! If you want to do it, you can do it. The question is, do you want to do it?”

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

“That was the greatest night of my existence. For a few hours I stood face to face with 'self'!”

“The turned-down pages of my life were turned up, and the past was present.”

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

“While I live I hope.”