Dorothea Dix Quotes
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
Citations
Tiffany, Francis. Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.
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Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained 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 a Superintendent of Army Nurses.