7 Quotes & Sayings By Dorothy Dix

Dorothy Dix was born in New York City and attended college in Ohio. She worked as a writer for the Vogue and Vanity Fair fashion magazines for a time, but her real love was writing short stories. Her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was published by Harper's in 1892 and became instantly popular. The story continues to inspire women who suffer from postpartum depression, which is named after the protagonist Read more

It is believed that Dorothy's story marks the first use of the term "pink cloud."

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own...
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix
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Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry. Dorothy Dix
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It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world. Dorothy Dix
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I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. 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. Dorothy Dix
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The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes. Dorothy Dix
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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. Dorothy Dix