Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk . . . What it does mean is to be taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.Ellen Key
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.
Ellen Key
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
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.
Ellen Key
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Ellen Key
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
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