Quote of the Week by Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly who was born Elizabeth Jane Cochan, until she changed her name to emulate a song by Stephan Foster. She was born in Pennsylvania in 1864 . She died in New York at 55 from pneumonia. But in her lifetime became famous as a feminist, journalist, industrialist, humanitarian and a celebrity when she had herself committed to a mental asylum to expose the condition there.

Then she in 1890 she also went around the world in 72 days to prove she could do it better than Jules Verne's book that did it in 80 days. When she was 30 she married an 80 year old man who was an industrialist and took over his business when he died. She was invented the idea of investigative reporting and also worked under-cover to get many of her stories she wrote for the Pittsburgh Newspaper which was her first journalist job.

The movie "the Great Race" was based on her career and continued her legend. To read more about this fascinating woman be sure to go to Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

"Accept praise for its worth -- politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer."
By Nellie Bly