Quotes of Dorothea Dix

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

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.

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After Life

The course of Dix's life changed in 1841, when she started showing Sunday school at the East Cambridge Jail, a ladies' jail. She found the horrifying treatment of the detainees, especially those with maladjustments, whose living quarters had no warmth. She instantly went to court and secured a request to give warmth to the detainees, alongside different upgrades. 

Dix came back to the United States in 1856. At the point when the Civil War softened out up 1861, she volunteered her administrations and was named director of attendants. She was in charge of setting up field doctor's facilities and emergency treatment stations, selecting attendants, overseeing supplies and setting up preparing projects. Despite the fact that she was effective and centered, numerous discovered her unbending, without the social abilities that were important to explore the military's administration. 

After the war, she quickly came back to her work for the benefit of the rationally sick. She contracted intestinal sickness in 1870 and was compelled to forsake forceful voyaging, in spite of the fact that she kept on composing, campaigning for her causes. She took up home at the healing center she had established 40 years prior in Trenton, New Jersey, and kicked the bucket there on July 17, 1887.

Early Life

Dorothea Dix was conceived in Hampden, Maine, in 1802. Her dad Joseph was a vagrant Methodist evangelist who was much of the time far from home, and her mom experienced incapacitating episodes of wretchedness. The most established of three kids, Dorothea ran her family unit and tended to her relatives from an extremely youthful age. Joseph Dix, however a strict and unstable man inclined to liquor abuse and despondency, taught his girl to peruse and compose, cultivating Dorothea's long lasting adoration for books and learning. Still, Dorothea’s early years were difficult, unpredictable and lonely.

At 12 Dorothea moved to Boston, where her affluent grandma took her in and empowered her enthusiasm for instruction. Dix would in the end make a progression of schools in Boston and Worcester, planning her own educational program and directing classrooms as an adolescent and young lady. In the 1820s Dix's weakness made her showing progressively sporadic, compelling her to take successive breaks from her vocation. She started to compose, and her books were loaded with the basic announcements and ethics that were thought to enlighten youthful personalities sold energetically. By 1836, persevering well being issues brought about Dix to close her most recent school for good.