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Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.
Quote by -Ellen Key
If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
Quote by -Ellen Key
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
Quote by -Ellen Key
When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.
Quote by -Ellen Key
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.
Quote by -Ellen Key
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
Quote by -Ellen Key
One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.
Quote by -Ellen Key
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?
Quote by -Ellen Key
The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.
Quote by -Ellen Key
The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Quote by -Ellen Key
To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
Quote by -Ellen Key
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
Quote by -Ellen Key
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
Quote by -Ellen Key
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”
Quote by -John Donne
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Quote by -Honore de Balzac