Quotation by Catherine E. Beecher

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"An Address to the Christian Women of America" Woman Suffrage and Women's Professions (1871)as quoted in Catherine Beecher by Kathryn Kish Sklar (1973)Common Sense Applied to Religion, or the Bible and the People (1857)Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education i the Upper Classes (1866)"Statistics of Female Health" Woman Suffrage and Women's Professions (1871)

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Catherine E. Beecher

Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878), U.S. educator, writer. "Statistics of Female Health," Woman Suffrage and Women's Professions (1871).

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