Birth: September 6, 1800 Death: May 12, 1878
Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices tha….
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible..
Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the w….
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helple….
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific tr….
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves..
... 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-sac….
... 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 t….
... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in acco….
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful ….
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; ….
The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social….
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right..
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care,….
The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year….