... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others;… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
