36 Quotes by Ellen Swallow Richards

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.

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.

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.