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 BeecherThe tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.
Catharine Beecher... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
Catharine BeecherThe 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.
Catharine Beecher