Demand Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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;…

— 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,…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Catharine Beecher

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