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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniting-by-co-operating-influences/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

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> [... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-school-should-be-an-appendage-of-the-family-state-and-modeled-on/)

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## More by Catharine Beecher

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/woman-s-great-mission-is-to-train-immature-weak-and-ignorant/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/so-large-a-portion-of-those-who-hold-much-capital-instead-of-using/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/i-regard-the-effort-to-introduce-women-into-colleges-for-young-men-as/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/as-liberty-and-intelligence-have-increased-the-people-have-more-and/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/we-now-come-to-the-grand-law-of-the-system-in-which-we-are-placed-as/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/as-if-reasoning-were-any-kind-of-writing-or-talking-which-tends-to/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/all-education-must-be-unsound-which-does-not-propose-for-itself-some/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/if-all-females-were-not-only-well-educated-themselves-but-were/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/coffee-it-is-best-to-buy-by-the-bag-as-it-improves-by-keeping-let-it/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-woman-movement-is-one-which-is-uniting-by-co-operating-influences/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/any-men-who-would-give-up-the-law-making-power-to-women-in-order-to/)

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> [When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/when-the-precepts-and-example-of-jesus-christ-fully-interpermeate/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-great-want-of-our-race-is-perfect-educators-to-train-new-born/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/in-civil-and-political-affairs-american-women-take-no-interest-or/)

[Catharine Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catharine-beecher/)

> [... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catharine-beecher/the-history-of-the-race-from-infancy-through-its-stages-of-barbarism/)

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