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…

— Catharine Beecher

... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of…

— Catharine Beecher

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two…

— Catharine Beecher

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and…

— Catharine Beecher

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the…

— Catharine Beecher

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true…

— Catharine Beecher

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be…

— Catharine Beecher

If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge…

— Catharine Beecher

Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a…

— 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,…

— Catharine Beecher

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those…

— Catharine Beecher

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as…

— 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…

— Catharine Beecher

In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and…

— Catharine Beecher

... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering,…

— Catharine Beecher

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous…

— Catharine Beecher

... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain…

— Catharine Beecher

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

— Catharine Beecher

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

— Catharine Beecher

Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the…

— Catharine Beecher

Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would…

— Catharine Beecher

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the…

— Catharine Beecher

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others,…

— Catharine Beecher

Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing…

— Catharine Beecher

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

— Catharine Beecher