Ellen Key
Ellen Key
Ellen Karolina Sofia Keywas a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1849
CountrySweden
creating imagination needs
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
dream personality remnants
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
education school despair
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.
monogamy strife has-beens
love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...
evil personality destruction
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
teamwork peace military
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
mouths incense burning
All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
offering air burning
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
self movement affirmation
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
freedom liberty force
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
education hands development
Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.
along drag firm great mighty movement parts socialism woman
Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.
prevent shall war
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
experience
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.