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Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (Swedish: [kej]; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) 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 was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.

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The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Baby, Mother, Nation, Precious, Precious Possessions, Society

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

Creating, Doe, Ideal, Imagination, Paints

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

Dignity, Give, Giving, Liberal, Skill, Skills

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.

Air, Doe, Fumigation, Infection, Offering, Spreading

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.

Self, Movement, Affirmation, Seen, Nineteenth

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

Monogamy, Strife, Has Beens, Love, Perpetual

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Art, Artist, Church, Undogmatized

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

Reality, Agreement, Appearance, Set, Appearances

Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. . . . Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory. . . No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.

Bleeding, Blood, Broke, Fate, Guilt, War

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Legal, Life, Marriage, Secret Love, Sung, Ties

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Evil, Personality, Destruction

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Burning, Charity, Fumigation, Mouth, Mouths, Philanthropy

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

Abstract, Art, Horrifying, World

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.

Barbaric, Collectively, Everything, Military, Peace, Teamwork

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

Despair, Education, Feels, Same, School

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Freedom, Liberty, Force, Work, Forces

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

Child, Children, Life, Real, Rose

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.

Giving, Ineffective, Pain, Punishment, Receives, Shame

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Belief, Peace, Possibility, Ubuntu, War

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

Immoral, Legal, Love, Marriage, Moral

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