The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to… — Ellen Key Copy Share
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to… — Ellen Key Copy Share
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. — Ellen Key Copy Share
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion… — Ellen Key Copy Share
Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch. — Ellen Key Copy Share
Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher… — Ellen Key Copy Share
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and… — Ellen Key Copy Share
One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat… — Ellen Key Copy Share
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. — Ellen Key Copy Share
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power… — Ellen Key Copy Share
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. — Ellen Key Copy Share
