Catharine Beecher famous quotes

03-28-2025

Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Sky #America #Climate
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Too Much #Eating #Culinary
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Teacher #Race #Perfect
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
-- Catharine Beecher

#People #Common Sense #Soul
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Sympathy #Delicate #Wells
As 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

#Writing #Talking #People
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Law #Intellectual #Ignorant
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Mind #Female #Would Be
To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be still more undervalued and shunned.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Humble #Class #Political
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.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Disappointment #Heart #Suffering
Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Coffee #Smell #Bags
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
-- Catharine Beecher

#Ties #Principles #Unions

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