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 KeyAt every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen KeyLove requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
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