Ellen Key Quotes

• When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.

  Ellen Key

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• 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.

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  Tags in Emancipation, Affirmation

• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

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  Topics in Future

  Tags in Above, Understand

• Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

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  Tags in Observation, Assure

• 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.

  Ellen Key

  Tags in Barbarity, Individually

• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dignity, Skill

• Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

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  Tags in Receives, Humiliating

• At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thorns, Roses

• Art, that great undogmatized church.

  Ellen Key

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Church

• Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  Ellen Key

  Topics in Love, Wedding

  Tags in Marriage

• The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

  Ellen Key

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Abstract, Horrifying, World, More, Become

Ellen Key (11)

Birth:	11th December, 1849
Death:	25th April, 1926
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Writer

About

Ellen Karolina Sofia Key was born in Småland, Sweden. She was 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 is best known for her book on education, Barnets århundrade, which was translated in English in 1909 as The Century of the Child. This book and numerous other publications concerning the issues of marriage, motherhood, and family life were translated into many languages. She wrote several books including: The Education of the Child, The Morality of Woman, The Woman Movement, and Love and Marriage.

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