21 Quotes by Dorothy Dix

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

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.

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.

(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.