Ellen Swallow Richards famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Home #Past #Today
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Running #Ducks #Water
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Religious #Happy Life #Names
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Home #Noble #England
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

#Community #Quality #World
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Class #Recycling #Week
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Cooking #Trying #Needs
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

#People #Quality #Environment
I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Winning #Way
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Understanding #World #Action

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