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Dorothea Dix   /dˌɔrəθˈiə dɪks/   Listen
Dorothea Dix

noun
1.
United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887).  Synonyms: Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix.






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"Dorothea Dix" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Melos, as he sees her standing at the end of the long gallery in the Louvre; if the lover of his kind admires John Howard, and can never be content unless he is doing something for his fellow- men again; if we can be touched by lives like Clara Barton's, like Florence Nightingale's, like Dorothea Dix's, like the great and consecrated ones of the earth; if in any department of life we can be lifted, humbled, thrilled, at the same time with the thought of the greatness and glory and beauty that are above and beyond us, then there is hope of growth, then there is life that can come ...
— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage

... how falsely has the admiration of mankind been given! If the most obscure woman is best, the most conspicuous must undoubtedly be worst. Tried by this standard, how unworthy must have been Elizabeth Barrett Browning, how reprehensible must be Dorothea Dix, what a model of all that is discreditable is Rosa Bonheur, what a crowning instance of human depravity is Florence Nightingale! Yet how consoling the thought, that, while these disreputable persons were ...
— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson



Words linked to "Dorothea Dix" :   meliorist, reformist, social reformer, Dorothea Lynde Dix, crusader, reformer



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