“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.”
Nellie Bly is one of the first, well known women journalists of our time. This quote comes from her most famous investigative report, where Bly studied the Blackwell’s Island mental institution from within the walls of the asylum. This quote, to me, shows the depth of what Bly endured for the sake of journalism. I think she is very influential not only for the information she has provided but as well as the fact that she was one of the first women journalists to break out and try something unexpected. She is an inspiration to me as I enter the world of journalism as a young women, and I will strive to be as true to my work as she was.
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