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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

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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.

Source: An Address to the Christian Women of America, Woman Suffrageand Women's Professions, 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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