Famous quotes containing the words beecher stowe, beecher, stowe and/or house:
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody’s wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“A woman’s health is her capital.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“A country without bordels is like a house without bathrooms.”
—Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)