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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: Cannot Cleaning Contented Cooking Make Need Try Women You

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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: Action Daily Daily Life Ends Higher Life Material Material World Relations Subject Understanding World

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The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: Afraid Break College College Degree Degree Down Enough Get Girl Health Here Know Let Us Only Question Reputation Ruining Shall Stake Study Trouble Us Without You

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We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: Account Enough Fulfilled General Good How Know Lives May Mission Never Our Our Lives Tell Wise Work

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If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

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Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: Ills Loves Man Never Remedy Sovereign Unhappy Who Will Work

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I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: Best Class Even Fashionable Prefer Society Spending Week

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New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

~Ellen Swallow Richards

Topics: England Good Her Home New New England Noble Opinions Uncompromising

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: December 3rd, 1842

Died: March 30th, 1911

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