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How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all!

~Ellen Key

Topics: Elevated Feeling Fields How Increased Many Movement Qualification Raised Responsibility Since Standard Woman Work

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Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

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Topics: Along Drag Firm Great Mighty Movement Parts Socialism Streams Them Touch Two Which Woman

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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.

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Topics: Also Always Beside Created Dominion Family Form However Man Married Often Our Our Time Place Provider Slavery Time Woman Worst

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If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Act Coming Courage Create Culture Dare Even Exactly Feminine Feminists Masculine Measure Most Now Really Shall Supplement Then Think Thousand Thousand Years Which Will Women Years

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No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Against Becomes Done Endures He Higher Him Himself Injustice Material Meets Open Others Passively Patiently Right Rights Struggle Up Way Which Who

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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Ideas Laws Morality Nations Our Our Time Perceive Persons Radical Relations Religions Sexual Thoughtful Time Transformation Undergoing Upheld Western

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Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Become Demand Development Drag Expression Faith Forms Higher Idealism Ideals Incentives Life Man Mankind Needs New New Forms Once Prevailing Profess Recognised Regard Those Thus Were Whenever Which Who

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On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Between Bridge Bridges Compromise Go Logical Made Marriage Other Over Question Respects Stand Two Universe Views

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Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Being Christianity Development Earth Earthly End Eternal Even Expressions Happiness Higher His Individual Itself Knowledge Life Man Must None Object Purpose Race Serve Sustained Than Therefore

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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Both Duty Elect Genius Gifts Gracious Great Great Love Life Like Love Never

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1849

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