[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 not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
[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
[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
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…
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
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, sta…
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote. - Dorothea Dix
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something. - Dorothea Dix
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
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
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as …
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds. - Dorothea Dix
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
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
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…
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and… - Dorothea Dix
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and…
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