Katharine Pearson Woods

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    “The newly-formed clothing unions are ready to welcome her; but woman shrinks back from organization, Heaven knows why! It is perhaps because in organization one find the truest freedom, and woman has been a slave too long to know what freedom means.”
    —Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)

    “Education is considered the peculiar business of women; perhaps for that very reason it is one of the worst-paid businesses in the world ...”
    —Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)

    “Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)