The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.
Ellen KeyLove requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
Ellen KeyThe mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
Ellen KeyThe genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
Ellen KeyThe educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen KeyA great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
Ellen Key