Dorothy Dix (1861–1951,) was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. As the forerunner of today’s popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America’s highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure on her travels abroad.
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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.
—Dorothy Dix
Topics: Age, Aging
You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
—Dorothy Dix
Topics: One liners, Unhappiness
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
—Dorothy Dix
Topics: Honesty, Weakness
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
—Dorothy Dix
Topics: Jealousy
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
—Dorothy Dix
Topics: Action, Service
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