Brad Ricca > Quotes

“How easy it might have been for so lovely a creature as she to sit idly by,”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That C...

“all the world was a neighborhood.”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

“Think for yourself...Be an inquirer--make no assertion unless you can support it by reason.”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

“An example for the idle rich girl who is poor indeed, whose time hangs heavy because it is full of nothingness. An example for the pretty girl who believes that all life means is to smile and dress. An example of the woman of brains who hides them under her marcel wave because she has become a parasite. An example for the woman who thinks that she can gain love when she acquires a man's bank account. An example for all womanhood.”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

“She [Grace Humiston] thought that law school graduates as a whole "were like too many carrots in a row--they crowd and crush one another, and nobody grows very big. But the women who transplant themselves into new fields grow like everything.”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

“to let yourself go was easy”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

“I answered the summons of the grand jury with pleasure, because I longed to help those of God's most unfortunate children whom I had left prisoners behind me. If I could not bring them that boon of all boons, liberty, I hoped at least to influence others to make life more bearable for them.”
― Brad Ricca, Ten Days in a Mad-House