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

- 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.

- Catharine Beecher

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sens…

- Catharine Beecher

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…

- 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 the m…

- Catharine Beecher

... 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 th…

- Catharine Beecher

When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will …

- Catharine Beecher

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…

- Catharine Beecher

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

- Catharine Beecher