13 Quotes & Sayings By Katharine Butler Hathaway

Katharine Butler Hathaway was born in New York City on January 28, 1774. She was the only daughter of Thomas Francis Kenneally, a wealthy Irish landowner, and Anne, the daughter of John Butler, a member of the Irish House of Lords. From her early youth she developed a passion for reading and writing. At age twenty-one she married Samuel F.B Read more

Morse, who later became famous as the inventor of the first practical telegraph. The couple had one son, Francis Ormonde Morse who died at twenty-nine. Katharine returned to her first love—writing—and published her first book A History of the Lives and Voyages of the Captains Iberville and La Salle in 1814.

Her second book The American Quarterly Review was published in 1816. Through her pen she continued to inspire women to seek higher education and to become involved in their communities through public speaking engagements and book clubs. Her most famous work is Woman's Worth, or Woman's Lectures Delivered to the Ladies of New York (1835).

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The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct your life will be safe expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. Katharine Butler Hathaway
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway