Top 180 Kate Moore Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “In many instances it is not insanity, but individuality that caused women to be committed.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

154. “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.”

— Kate Moore

155. “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

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

— Kate Moore

157. “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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158. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

160. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

162. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

165. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

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

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168. “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.”

— Kate Moore

169. “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.”

— Kate Moore

170. “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.”

— Kate Moore

171. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

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174. “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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175. “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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176. “O, Dr. McFarland,” she said with patronizing clarity, “you cannot kill a spirit; it lives after all you have done to destroy its existence.”

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177. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

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179. “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.”

— Kate Moore

180. “Ever since this thing had blown up in Roeder’s face, there seemed to be nothing but safety recommendations. He had recently instructed Viedt to put some of them into practice: “This is much more economical,” he’d told his deputy in a memo, “than paying $75,000 lawsuits.”25.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

182. “Why do you try to injure and destroy my character rather than my opinions?”

— Kate Moore