The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body.… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
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