Ellen Key Quotes

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Ellen Key

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: December 11, 1849 - April 25, 1926

Topics

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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

Merritt Wever

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It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Tucker Carlson

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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Tony Campolo

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If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Tomas Borge

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Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Ronnie Wood

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Being on the Intelligence Committee made me more of a hawk.

Mike Quigley

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No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

Monica Johnson

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I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.

Chevy Chase

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We boil at different degrees.

Clint Eastwood

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One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.

Brian Fallon

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