Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Mothers

• Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Mother, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.247, Hackett Publishing

• Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mom, Mother, Arches

• Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mother, Educational, Drawing

  Thomas Jefferson (2016). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12: 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818”, p.533, Princeton University Press

• Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mother, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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