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 that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.
Catharine BeecherIt is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.
Catharine BeecherThe delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
Catharine BeecherAs if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
Catharine Beecher