CASIMIRA

CASIMIRA
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Thursday, September 18

Isabella Beecher Hooker

2008 mixed media
My interest in the woman question began soon after my marriage when my husband, a patient young lawyer waiting for business, invited me to bring my knitting work to his office every day, where he would read to me from his law books, and in the evenings I might read literature to him, whose weak eyes forbade his ever using them in the evening. For four years we kept on this even tenor of our way, and to it I owe my intelligent interest in public affairs and a certain discipline of mind - since I never attended school or college after my sixteenth year.

- Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822 – 1907)
Who has been your greatest teacher? I recently gave birth to mine...