Dorothy Dix
5 quotes
Biography
Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.
"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."
"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."
"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."
"Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry."
"The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes."