Ellen Swallow Richards

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.

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

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

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.