[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will …

- Dorothea Dix

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more wo…

- Dorothea Dix

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, sta…

- Dorothea Dix

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

- Dorothea Dix

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as …

- Dorothea Dix

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

- Dorothea Dix

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

- Dorothea Dix

Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and…

- Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his char…

- Dorothea Dix