Top 180 Kate Moore Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Gods can be kind. Loving. Benevolent. Yet as the playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “The gods of old are constantly demanding human sacrifices.”

— Kate Moore

152. “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

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

— Kate Moore

154. “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.”

— Kate Moore

155. “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

156. “Blum was worth his money. Later, he would try to find out the exact chemicals in the luminous paint, although to no avail.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

158. “Her work now, in addition to weighing, was to scrape out the compound from the girls’ dishes, often simply using her fingernails. As was to be expected, her bare hands became ‘luminous bright’, and as it was her habit to run them through her hair her whole head glowed fiercely. If anything, she often thought, when she peered at herself in a mirror in a dark bathroom, the new job got her even more covered in radium than the old one had.”

— Kate Moore

159. “She vowed “that I should never be again found among the class who condemned dancing.”

— Kate Moore

160. “Don’t write all this stuff in the papers about our bearing up wonderfully,” Quinta said with a cheeky smile. “I am neither a martyr or a saint.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

162. “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.”

— Kate Moore

163. “A lunatic asylum is a grand receptacle for all who are troublesome.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

165. “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

166. “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

167. “The physicians moaned heartily about her behind her back:.”

— Kate Moore

168. “It is no uncommon thing to receive a blow for a kiss.”

— Kate Moore

169. “Theo Sr. had saved up money to buy a house for his old age, but he now offered some of his savings to his son for Hazel’s treatment.”

— Kate Moore

170. “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

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

— Kate Moore

172. “She claimed to be better than her husband,” Brown said hurriedly. To a doctor, this would genuinely have seemed insane, given the “scientific” belief of the era that white men were biologically superior to all.”

— Kate Moore

173. “I will not suffer humanity to be so abused, as you do here, without lifting my voice against it,” she wrote, “and it will be heard.”

— Kate Moore

174. “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

175. “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

176. “There was nothing hazardous in the paint, the doctors promised:.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

178. “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.”

— Kate Moore

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore