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Katherine A. Kendall

“[On Jane Addams:] At that time men tended to place women of her cultivated tastes on a pedestal, and it seems likely that she had great difficulty in distinguishing the difference between a pedestal and a shelf.”
- Katherine A. Kendall,
- Reflections on Social Work Education 1950-1978
- (1978)

Katherine A. Kendall, Scottish-born U.S. social work educator

(1920 - 2010)