Dorothea Dix on working to improve the world

    Dorothea Dix got her marching orders from the world she saw:    

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. (Quoted from Letters from New York (Second Series), by L. Maria Child. 1845. New York: C. S. Francis & Co. p. 284.)

    For a brief biography of Dorothea Dix, click here. For a brief biography of Lydia Maria Child, click here.