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[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

Dorothea Dix

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Dorothea Dix
Age: 85 †
Born: 1802
Born: April 4
Died: 1887
Died: July 17
Botanical Collector
Nurse
Physician
Public Figure
Social Reformer
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea L. Dix
D. L. Dix
Choices
Lace
Rather
Claimed
Woman
Privilege
Long
Dear
Continue
Choice
Unconfined
Dead
Unfashionable
Fashion
Tightly

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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
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