Top 180 Kate Moore Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Katherine wrote when they first arrived. “I enjoyed that because someone helped me to take it. A maid is a fine thing to have when you are sick.”27.”

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102. “Szamatolski’s opinion, therefore, was a lone, unheard, and hypothetical voice, set against the flamboyant roar of a well-funded campaign of pro-radium literature.”

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103. “Reed swore “he never told anyone, nor ever heard anyone tell, Catherine Donohue or other employees radium wouldn’t hurt them.”

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104. “The law did not apply to married women. They could be received at an asylum simply “by the request of the husband.”4 Because married women at that time in the eyes of the law were “civilly dead.”5.”

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105. “To offend such a prestigious institution as USRC would not be wise.”

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106. “A maid is a fine thing to have when you are sick.”

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107. “My husband tries to be brave,” she’d said of him once. “But it’s harder on men than women.”21.”

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108. “I agree not to be connected with, directly or indirectly, any other cases against the United States Radium Corporation, nor to render assistance to any persons in any actions against said Company, nor to furnish data or information to any such persons in matters against said Company.”

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109. “The law gave him power “to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.”

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110. “Because married women at that time in the eyes of the law were “civilly dead.”5 They were not citizens, they were shadows:.”

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111. “Gods can be kind. Loving. Benevolent. Yet as the playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “The gods of old are constantly demanding human sacrifices.”

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112. “As for Katherine Schaub, nobody even saw her anymore: she stayed at home and refused to go out. “While other girls are going to dances and the theatres and courting and marrying for love,” Katherine said mournfully, “I have to remain here and watch painful death approach. I am so lonely.”5 She left the house only to attend church. While Katherine had not been especially religious before, she now pronounced, “You don’t know what a consolation I obtain from going to mass.”

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113. “She had “suffered so frightfully that her mind seemed affected.”

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114. “It was no coincidence that the word hysteria, in fact, derives from the ancient Greek for uterus.”

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115. “New Jersey was nicknamed the Garden State for its high agricultural production, but in truth it was just as productive industrially.”

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116. “He didn’t send the full report, which was lengthy, simply a table of the medical-test results of the workers, which showed the employees’ blood to be “practically normal.”14 “I do not believe,” wrote Viedt confidently, “that this table shows a condition any different than a similar examination would show of the average industrial worker.”15 The department agreed: the table showed that “every girl is in perfect condition.”16.”

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117. “The mainstream position as understood by most people was that the effects of radium were all positive;.”

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118. “Peg started out, as did all the new girls, by painting the Big Ben alarm clocks that Westclox produced. He was “a rugged handsome fellow”9 of a clock, with a dial that measured about 10 centimeters across, giving him nice big numbers for the less experienced girls to paint.”

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119. “Judge William Clark was a hugely respected man. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth – he was the grandson of a senator; the family estate was called Peachcroft –.”

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120. “USRC executives decided to launch an investigation to determine if there was anything dangerous in the work. For too long there had been rumor and suspicion; it couldn’t continue. After all – now, it was bad for business.”

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121. “The nineteenth-century medical notes of supposed madwomen place particular emphasis on their appearance. An unbuttoned blouse, an undone bun, or even simple carelessness of dress was considered damning evidence a woman’s mind roamed free from its moorings.”

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122. “Night and rainy days are the worst times.”

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123. “In 1978, researchers exhumed Peg’s body from St. Columba Cemetery, where she had been resting alongside her parents. They discovered she had 19,500 microcuries of radium in her bones – one of the highest quantities found. It was more than 1,000 times the amount scientists then considered safe.”

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124. “Just think!” Elizabeth later exclaimed. “Forty men and women clubbed together to get me imprisoned just because I chose to think my own thoughts, and speak my own words!”

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125. “Catherine Wolfe, fired for being sick, swung open the glass door at the entrance of the studio. It was six steps down to the sidewalk, and on every one she felt her hip ache. Nine years she had given them. It had meant nothing.”

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126. “As the firm had actively conducted a campaign to mislead the girls, it should not be allowed to rely upon the delay, which it had caused, as a defense.”

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127. “If Mrs. Donohue dies before a final ruling,” he said solemnly, “her estate under the law would receive nothing.”20 Perhaps that was why Magid immediately requested a postponement; but it was not granted.”

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128. “This period of subjection through which woman is passing, is developing her self-reliant character, by compelling her to defend herself.”

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129. “Berry even learned that Clark “is, or was, up to a very recent time, a stockholder in USRC.”28.”

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130. “He couldn’t see what else he could do. He did ask others for help, consulting a highly skilled Newark physician, Dr. Harrison Martland. But when Martland examined the girls, he too was puzzled. “After seeing several girls in the dental office,” Martland later wrote, “I lost interest in the matter.”

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131. “It was Nancy Pelosi versus Donald Trump in October 2019.”

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132. “In the nineteenth century, doctors were certain that women’s menstrual cycles made them liable, indeed likely, to go mad, despite no confirmatory scientific evidence.”

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133. “Thousands of women helped with the study, through their forties, fifties, sixties, and beyond; their contribution to medical science is incalculable. We all benefit from their sacrifice and courage, every day of our lives.”

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134. “After seeing several girls in the dental office,” Martland later wrote, “I lost interest in the matter.”

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135. “She had been concerned before about the lack of treatment for those who were genuinely mentally ill. But this course he had now prescribed went the other way. As one patient put it, most of the doctors that are employed in lunatic asylums do much more to aggravate the disease than they do to cure it.”

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136. “The subdivisions were 15.4. With every breath she gave, the radium was there, carried on the very air, slipping out through her painful mouth, passing by her aching teeth, moving like a whisper across her tongue. Radium.”

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137. “Whether she meant further sexual contact from the doctor or slurs against her virtue is unclear.”

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138. “Almost a year on, the company had not lifted a finger to help her.”

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139. “The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was expanding massively, and the new site comprised several buildings, all located in the middle of a residential neighborhood.”

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140. “I am a martyr for the rights of opinion in woman, in the year 1860, in this boasted, free America”2 she wrote passionately.”

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141. “Fear nothing so much as the sin of simply not doing your duty,” she urged, “in defence of the heaven-born principles of liberty and justice to all humankind.”

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142. “That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be.”

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143. “One dial-painter, known as a “lively Italian girl,”13 painted the material all over her teeth one night before a date, wanting a smile that would knock him dead.”

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144. “Her liberty lay scattered on the railroad track, her reputation for sanity dead beside it.”

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145. “When scientists had discovered, at the turn of the century, that radium could destroy human tissue, it was quickly put to use to battle cancerous tumors, with remarkable results.”

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146. “Theophilus had usurped Elizabeth’s domestic authority and brought another woman into their home. Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Rumsey, one of his most devout parishioners, had moved in, supposedly to help with the household chores. But Sarah was a teacher by trade and came from a wealthy family; Elizabeth knew she was no servant but a spy.”

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147. “With breathtaking arrogance, McFarland considered asylum superintendents – himself included – “the best men that society can produce.”

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148. “But over the years, as Theophilus had at various times confiscated her mail, refused her access to her own money, and even removed her from what he deemed the bad influence of her friends, doubts had surfaced. The net he cast about her felt more like a cage than the protection marriage had promised.”

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149. “Indeed, she’d recently begun to conceive of her stand for selfhood as “business that God has sent me to do.”

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150. “Mrs. Donohue, this remnant of a woman, took on her role as president of this strange society,” he later wrote. “She lay motionless, but she was business-like.”

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