Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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 socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only… — 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
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
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
The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by… — 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
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
