Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.
Ellen Swallow RichardsThe most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
Ellen Swallow RichardsThe 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.
Ellen Swallow RichardsYou cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
Ellen Swallow Richards