... 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.
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... 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.
Catharine Beecher... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.
Catharine BeecherThe delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
Catharine BeecherIn civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.
Catharine Beecher