~ Dorothy Dix Quotes ~

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Dorothy Dix Quotes


An American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. 
Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses.

Here are some famous quotes by Dorothy Dix.

The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

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It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

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I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.