Top 180 Kate Moore Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Blum was worth his money. Later, he would try to find out the exact chemicals in the luminous paint, although to no avail.”

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

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153. “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.”

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154. “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.”

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

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

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

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158. “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.”

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

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160. “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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161. “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.”

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

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

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

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166. “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.”

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167. “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.”

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168. “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.”

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

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “Berry even learned that Clark “is, or was, up to a very recent time, a stockholder in USRC.”28.”

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

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177. “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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178. “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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179. “No human being can be subjected to the process to which you subject them here, without being in great danger of becoming insane.”14.”

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

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181. “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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182. “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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183. “Whether she meant further sexual contact from the doctor or slurs against her virtue is unclear.”

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