Ellen Swallow Richards

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

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

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

The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work,…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

— Ellen Swallow Richards