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Ellen Swallow Richards

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member 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.

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Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Happiness, Ills, Loves, Men, Unhappy, Work

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

Education, Mind, Teachable, Unwilling

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.

Community, Quality, Resources, World

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.

Children, Inflict, Sitting, Sitting Still, Vacancy, Years

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Action, Material, Relations, Understanding, World

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

Cleaning, Contented, Cooking, Needs, Trying, Women

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

Class, Recycling, Spending, Surveying, Week

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.

Environment, Life, People, Poor, Quality

It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

Body, Care, Mind, Take, View, Views

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Expect, Hard, Horse, Pie, Three

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Ducks, Keep, Oiled, Running, Water

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

Boys, Experiment, Faculty, Girl, Vassar

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

Political, Politics, Power, Taste

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

Giving Up, Opportunity, Perseverance, Prime, Thinking, Work

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

Body, Bones, Eight, Knowledge, Move, Moving

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.

Knowledge, Let, Life, Physical, Religious, Science

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.

Good, Perseverance, Purpose, Wise, Work

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.

Cutting, Future, God, Quite, Success, Ties

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.

Rights, Thinking, Wish, Women

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.

Dangerous, Fear, Girl, Girls, Silly, Things

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