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Catharine E. Beecher

  • The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...

    • Catharine E. Beecher,
    • in Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Woman's Home ()
  • Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

    • Catharine E. Beecher,
    • in Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Woman's Home ()
  • The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

    • Catharine E. Beecher,
    • in Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Woman's Home ()
  • The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

    • Catharine E. Beecher,
    • "Statistics of Female Health," Woman Suffrage and Woman's Professions ()

Catharine E. Beecher, U.S. educator, social reformer, poet, writer

(1800 - 1878)

Full name: Catharine Esther Beecher.