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“Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.”

Ellen Swallow Richards

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The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

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

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

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

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The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

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The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

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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…

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

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