Caroline Nichols Churchill

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    There used to be housekeepers with more energy than sense—the everlasting scrubber; the over-neat woman. Since the better education of woman has come to stay, this type of woman has disappeared almost, if not entirely.
    Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

    It is queer to contemplate how many people there are in any community who labor under the hallucination that if one is engaged in any occupation different from their own, that they are just having a good time, with no possible hardships to encounter.
    —Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

    It is strange to contemplate how little sympathy or encouragement the great mass of people have with one who differs from them in tastes, to the extent of desiring an education, while they are content with little or none.
    Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

    I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.
    Anonymous, U.S. correspondence student. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt, quoting Ellen Swallow Richards (1912)

    Well, they’re saved from the blessings of civilization.
    —Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)

    Adepts in the speaking trade
    Keep a cough by them ready made.
    —Charles Churchill (1731–1764)