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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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Famous Catharine Beecher Quotes

“We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!”

Has Beens Law Race Sacrifice One Word

Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“... 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 laws themselves.”

Men Giving Law Order Evil Ready Giving Up Remedy Law Making

Book:Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“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 moral.”

Law Social Moral Creatures Intellectual Weak Train Missions Ignorant Immature

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