" embroiderers.” Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and “be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated” in accordance with the roles to which they might be called. For, she continued, “when a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. "

― Karen Swallow Prior , Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist