Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richardswas an industrial and environmental chemist in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 December 1842
CountryUnited States of America
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...
One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.
The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
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 of the torture we thus inflict.
I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.
A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.