“Let every woman become so cultivated and refined in intellect, that her taste and judgment will be respected…so unassuming and unambitious, that collision and competition will be banished…then, the fathers, the husbands, and the sons, will find an influence thrown around them, to which they will yield not only willingly but proudly.” ~Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
Catherine Beecher – woman
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