Top 180 Kate Moore Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “It was Nancy Pelosi versus Donald Trump in October 2019.”

— Kate Moore

152. “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.”

— Kate Moore

153. “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

154. “No human being can be subjected to the process to which you subject them here, without being in great danger of becoming insane.”14.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

156. “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.”

— Kate Moore

157. “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

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

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Kate Moore

164. “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.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

166. “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.”

— Kate Moore

167. “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

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

— Kate Moore

169. “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

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

— Kate Moore

171. “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.”

— Kate Moore

172. “On September 2, 2011, the bronze statue for the dial-painters was unveiled by the governor in Ottawa, Illinois. It is a statue of a young woman from the 1920s, with a paintbrush in one hand and a tulip in the other, standing on a clock face. Her skirt swishes, as though at any moment she might step down from her time-ticking pedestal and come to life.”

— Kate Moore

173. “One couldn’t hear the tales of the other women on Seventh Ward and not know that an asylum was not so much a place to treat the sick as a pseudo factory for social control.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

175. “Still, at least she could be honest with them: “As to my health,” she wrote bluntly, “I am still a cripple.”24.”

— Kate Moore

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

— Kate Moore

177. “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

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

— Kate Moore

179. “If the prisoner could but know for how long a time he must suffer this incarceration,” one of Elizabeth’s friends wrote, “it would be a wonderful relief. Then the Superintendent could not perpetuate it at his own option, as he now can and does.”10.”

— Kate Moore

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Kate Moore

183. “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