US educator, feminist.
She championed excellence in higher education for women; helped found, and then was the first dean and president of Bryn Mawr College.
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One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.
. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.
My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
In "Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr," ch. 2, by Edith Finch, 1947.
R:
In "Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr," ch. 1, by Edith Finch, 1947.
A:
In "Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr," ch. 1, by Edith Finch, 1947.
N:
Address, North American Woman Suffrage Association, Buffalo, New York, Oct 1908.
K:
Address, North American Woman Suffrage Association, Buffalo, New York, Oct 1908.
