Emily Mann > Quotes

“When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.”
― Emily Mann

“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.”
― Emily Mann, Mrs. Packard

“I do not call people insane because they differ from me, not even from a majority of people. You might as well with as much propriety call Galileo mad; or Newton; or Jesus; or Luther; or Morse who electrified the world!”
― Emily Mann, Mrs. Packard