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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World QUOTES

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World QUOTES

1 " A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

2 " After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

3 " If one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling,” Bly liked to say, “and not for the purpose of impressing fellow travelers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one. "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

4 " Travel, she had discovered, was a delightful means of gratifying the intelligent curiosity that Dr. Johnson had called the root of all wisdom and culture. “I go to bed exhaustedly happy,” she wrote in her notebook, “and wake up expectantly smiling. "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

5 " Her official name was Liberty Enlightening the World, but she was most often referred to simply as “Bartholdi’s statue.” The Alsatian sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi had originally meant for her to stand at the entrance to the Suez Canal, where, in the veil and dress of an Egyptian peasant woman, she would have held up a lantern that symbolized the light of Egypt bringing progress to Asia. That plan, however, had been rejected by Egypt’s ruler Khedive Isma’il Pasha as too expensive, and so Bartholdi went back to the drawing board, where he converted progress into liberty. "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

6 " The state of Illinois contained twenty-seven different time zones, Wisconsin thirty-eight. In Pittsburgh the train station had six clocks, and each one showed a different time. When a clock struck noon in Washington, D.C., the time was 12:08 in Philadelphia, 12:12 in New York, and 12:24 in Boston. "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World