“The received wisdom of the age was that radium was safe...it would take a lot to conclude that it was not.”-Kate Moore, personal email interview
"He told me that my trouble was all due to the presence of radium."-Quinta Maggia McDonald, 1925- The Radium Girls (140).
"...if they (USRC) had acknowledged that radium was dangerous, the whole business would collapse."-Kate Moore, personal email interview.
"The authorities didn't believe the women's deaths were "worth" investigating. However, a man dying meant a person "of value" had died, and therefore the threat must now be interrogated."-Kate Moore, personal email interview
"That the party of the first part does hereby agree to pay to the party of the second part the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) per year...The party of the first part will pay to the party of the second part the amount necessarily paid or incurred by her to June 4, 1928, for medicines or medical treatment for the purpose of endeavoring to cure her of her alleged illness claimed to be due to radium poisoning."
“...It was 1931 before ‘Radium Necrosis’ was changed to ‘Radium Poisoning’ in the Law books of NJ- thanks to both the girls and the Consumers League.”-Kate Moore, second personal email interview.