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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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“When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.”

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Author:Catharine Beecher

“... 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-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.”

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“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.”

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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

“The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”

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Book:An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible

Source: An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible