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Catharine Beecher was an American educator and social reformer who significantly influenced the role of women in society. Known for her advocacy of women's education and her efforts to improve the conditions of the poor and the mentally ill, Beecher was born on September 6, 1800, and died on May 12, 1878.

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“... 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 accordance with God's Will.”

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“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”

Source: The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object

“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, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.”

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Book:Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage