“The cynical would say there was only one reason a high-profile specialist finally took up the cause. On June 7, 1925, the first male employee of the United States Radium Corporation died.”
―
Kate Moore,
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“And Grace Fryer was never forgotten. She is still remembered now—you are still remembering her now. As a dial-painter, she glowed gloriously from the radium powder; but as a woman, she shines through history with an even brighter glory: stronger than the bones that broke inside her body; more powerful than the radium that killed her or the company that shamelessly lied through its teeth; living longer than she ever did on earth, because she now lives on in the hearts and memories of those who know her only from her story.Grace Fryer: the girl who fought on when all hope seemed gone; the woman who stood up for what was right, even as her world fell apart. Grace Fryer, who inspired so many to stand up for themselves.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
“It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.” ― Chris Pavone, The Expats
“We’ve got humane societies for dogs and cats, but they won’t do anything for human beings,” he spat out. “These women have souls.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“Radium, they noted, had a “similar chemical nature” to calcium. Thus radium “if absorbed, might have a preference for bone as a final point of fixation.” Radium was what one might call a boneseeker, just like calcium; and the human body is programmed to deliver calcium straight to the bones to make them stronger… Essentially, radium had masked itself as calcium and, fooled, the girls’ bodies had deposited it inside their bones. Radium was a silent stalker, hiding behind that mask, using its disguise to burrow deep into the women’s jaws and teeth.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.” ― Chris Pavone, The Expats
“My body means nothing but pain to me,” Grace revealed, “and it might mean longer life or relief to the others, if science had it. It’s all I have to give.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“doctors were policing women who stepped outside society’s strictly defined gender spheres—work and intellect for men, home and children for women—in what could be described as a “medicalization of female behavior.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak,” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger—the one who speaks to nobody—warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire—crackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about—and, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure.” ― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield
“Lip… Dip… Paint.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“Woman is too volatile and spiritual a being to be kept down by mere brute force,” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“Radium, he determined, was dangerous. It was just that nobody told the girls…” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“A peace based on injustice…is a treacherous sleep whose waking is death. Your honor lies in waking out of it.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental health. With our understanding, statics showing higher rates of mental illness in women, people of color and other disenfranchised groups become translated into truth. NOT a biological deficiency as doctors first thought. But a cultural creation that, if wanted to, we could do something about.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.” ― Chris Pavone, The Expats
“As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not say I believed what I did not believe.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“It is an offense against Morals and Humanity,” he concluded, “and, just incidentally, against the law.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“And Grace Fryer was never forgotten. She is still remembered now—you are still remembering her now. As a dial-painter, she glowed gloriously from the radium powder; but as a woman, she shines through history with an even brighter glory: stronger than the bones that broke inside her body; more powerful than the radium that killed her or the company that shamelessly lied through its teeth; living longer than she ever did on earth, because she now lives on in the hearts and memories of those who know her only from her story.Grace Fryer: the girl who fought on when all hope seemed gone; the woman who stood up for what was right, even as her world fell apart. Grace Fryer, who inspired so many to stand up for themselves.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
“It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.” ― Chris Pavone, The Expats
“We’ve got humane societies for dogs and cats, but they won’t do anything for human beings,” he spat out. “These women have souls.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“Radium, they noted, had a “similar chemical nature” to calcium. Thus radium “if absorbed, might have a preference for bone as a final point of fixation.” Radium was what one might call a boneseeker, just like calcium; and the human body is programmed to deliver calcium straight to the bones to make them stronger… Essentially, radium had masked itself as calcium and, fooled, the girls’ bodies had deposited it inside their bones. Radium was a silent stalker, hiding behind that mask, using its disguise to burrow deep into the women’s jaws and teeth.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.” ― Chris Pavone, The Expats
“My body means nothing but pain to me,” Grace revealed, “and it might mean longer life or relief to the others, if science had it. It’s all I have to give.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“doctors were policing women who stepped outside society’s strictly defined gender spheres—work and intellect for men, home and children for women—in what could be described as a “medicalization of female behavior.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak,” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger—the one who speaks to nobody—warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire—crackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about—and, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure.” ― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield
“Lip… Dip… Paint.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“Woman is too volatile and spiritual a being to be kept down by mere brute force,” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“Radium, he determined, was dangerous. It was just that nobody told the girls…” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“A peace based on injustice…is a treacherous sleep whose waking is death. Your honor lies in waking out of it.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental health. With our understanding, statics showing higher rates of mental illness in women, people of color and other disenfranchised groups become translated into truth. NOT a biological deficiency as doctors first thought. But a cultural creation that, if wanted to, we could do something about.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.” ― Chris Pavone, The Expats
“As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not say I believed what I did not believe.” ― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
“It is an offense against Morals and Humanity,” he concluded, “and, just incidentally, against the law.” ― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
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