Take warning by what you see abroad. In every country where the women are uneducated, unoccupied; where their only literature is French novels or translations of them -- in every one of those countries the women, even to the highest, are the slaves of superstition, and the puppets of priests. In proportion as women are highly educated, family life and family secrets are sacred, and the woman owns allegiance and devotion to no confessor or director, but to her own husband or her own family.

Lecture on Thrift. 1860.