Georgia Harkness
American theologian (1891-1974)
Dorothy Dix
American newspaper columnist
Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), 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.
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Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), 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. 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. In addition to her journalistic work, she joined in the campaign for woman suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
8 Quotes by Dorothy Dix
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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There isn’t a single human being who hasn’t plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist
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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.
Dorothy DixAmerican newspaper columnist