[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue … - Dorothea Dix

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Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

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 not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

Choices, Claimed, Fashion, Long

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I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

Massachusetts, Men, Place, Real, Strong, Unconcerned

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

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Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

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Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. . . . All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Fever, Humanity, Insanity, Shows, Treated

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Degraded, Made, Man, Men

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