Catharine Beecher Quotes

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else.

The new woman is essentially an independent labour unit whose energy is used not to serve the interests of a private family economy, but to perform socially useful and necessary labour.

Education and work are the levers to uplift the people.

I have confidence, not only in this country and her institutions, but in the endurance, capacity, and destiny of my people. We will, as opportunity offers and ability serves, seek our places, sometimes in the field of letters, arts, sciences, and the professions. More frequently mechanical pursuits will attract and elicit our efforts; more still of my people will find employment and livelihood as the cultivators of the soil.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

If a woman is financially independent, she can definitely make a bigger contribution in making big decisions and contribute much more. If a woman is financially independent, she can pursue her interests, too.

It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.

Having more education is one of the biggest predictors of women having careers.

In many households today, the woman is also a bread winner and with this financial independence comes the power of making choices.

If you get better educated, you might yourself higher up the ladder, but the ladder will still be there.

I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.