“What, excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment?” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1519649266
— Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887). Nellie Bly wrote this after being unjustly confined to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York, where she witnessed horrific neglect and abuse. The line captures her outrage and empathy — and her courage in exposing institutional cruelty. #NellieBly #TenDaysInAMadHouse #ClassicLiterature #WomenWriters #Journalism #TrueStory #MustRead