Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

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    After school days are over, the girls ... find no natural connection between their school life and the new one on which they enter, and are apt to be aimless, if not listless, needing external stimulus, and finding it only prepared for them, it may be, in some form of social excitement. ...girls after leaving school need intellectual interests, well regulated and not encroaching on home duties.
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...
    Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology before ... there were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.
    Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    ...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    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.
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)