Top 180 Kate Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Sometimes less.” “Yes, sir.” “Sometimes you wouldn’t put the brush in your mouth at all, would you?” he exclaimed, spinning round to deliver the line. She must have hesitated. “You don’t know?” he said incredulously.”

— Kate Moore

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. “Oh no, the local doctor said, it was definitely not radium poisoning.”

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104. “With the Civil War aflame, he’d recently started representing war widows struggling to get pensions, often acting without fees.”

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105. “Records show the women even made their own restraining jackets.”

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106. “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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107. “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.”

— Kate Moore

108. “Despite knowing of the cases for so long, Flinn didn’t correct or withdraw his report and allowed it to be printed, giving USRC published expert evidence to draw on in their continued denial of responsibility.”

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109. “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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110. “In many instances it is not insanity, but individuality that caused women to be committed.”

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111. “Archives show that clitoridectomies to correct “emotional disorder”43 were performed as late as the 1940s. The last recorded case was on a five-year-old girl.”

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112. “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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113. “I instructed them,” she said, “to put the brush in their mouth.”12.”

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114. “That is the voice of the ghost women speaking not only here in this room but to the world. This voice is going to strike the shackles off the industrial slaves of America. You girls have rights to better laws. That’s what the society is going to work for.”

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115. “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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116. “I must defend myself,” she realized, “or go undefended.”21 Because no one was coming to save her. She had to save herself.”

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117. “Atomic energy remained part of the world; it is a part of our lives even today, when 56 countries operate 240 nuclear reactors, and more still are used to power nuclear ships and submarines. Yet thanks to the radium girls, whose experiences led directly to the regulation of radioactive industries, atomic power is able to be operated, on the whole, in safety.”

— Kate Moore

118. “Why didn’t their basic humanity compel them to end the practice of lip-pointing?”

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119. “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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120. “While women had proven that they could study on an intellectual level, doctors lamented that the choice made them highly susceptible to “derangements of the nervous system.”6 The problem was that when “minds of limited capacity to comprehend subjects”7 tried to do so, it ultimately led to mental breakdown. That.”

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121. “Being sane, I can’t be cured.”

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122. “Archives show that clitoridectomies to correct “emotional disorder”43 were performed as late as the 1940s.”

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123. “Radium eats the bone,” an interview with Grace later said, “as steadily and surely as fire burns wood.”

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124. “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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125. “Neither Peg nor any of her tested coworkers were told the results.”

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

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128. “Mine was the only pen he feared amongst his patients.”23 She considered that distinction an honor.”

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129. “Today, we would call it crowdfunding.”

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130. “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”1 – Marie Curie, 1894.”

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131. “I am fully determined never to return to my husband again, of my own free-will.”

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

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133. “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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134. “It seemed wealthy consumers were much more worthy of protection than working-class girls; after all, dial-painting was still going on, even in 1933.”

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

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136. “As he’d noted in his letter to Theophilus, Elizabeth had a truly brilliant mind – and that made her dangerous.”

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137. “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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138. “In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it’s about fighting back.”

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139. “So many doctors across New Jersey were confused that first month of 1924 – but they didn’t share notes, and so each case was viewed in isolation.”

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140. “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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141. “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.”

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142. “The executives of the Radium Dial Company had confirmed knowledge of radium poisoning since at least 1925, less than three years after their studio first opened in Ottawa.”

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143. “But here she learned that New Jersey law was set against the women.”

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144. “Is there no man in this crowd to protect this woman?” Rebecca Blessing shouted, pacing the platform. “Is there no man among you? If I were a man, I would seize hold upon her!”

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145. “There was just one condition. She would have to return to Theophilus – as his obedient wife. All she had to do to secure her freedom was submit.”

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146. “The girls shone “like the watches did in the darkroom,” as though they themselves were timepieces, counting down the seconds as they passed. They glowed like ghosts as they walked home through the streets of Orange.”

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “And another patient went further: “INSANE ASYLUM. A place where insanity is made.”23.”

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150. “O, Dr. McFarland,” she said with patronizing clarity, “you cannot kill a spirit; it lives after all you have done to destroy its existence.”

— Kate Moore