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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.

Source: Woman Suffrage and Women's Professions, Statistics of Female Health, 1871.
-- Catharine Esther Beecher, (Sep 6 1800-1878), US educator, author; She popularized and shaped a conservative ideological movement to both elevate and entrench woman's place in the domestic sphere of American culture.

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