Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#good #her #home #new #new england

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#cleaning #contented #cooking #make #need

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#class #even #fashionable #i #prefer

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 Henrietta Swallow Richards

#clothes #comfort #night #off #protection

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#criticism #duck #feathers #keep #off

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#daily #daily life #ends #higher #life

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 Henrietta Swallow Richards

#enough #fulfilled #general #general good #good

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#loves #man #never #remedy #sovereign