Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

“Home economics stands for the freedom of the home from the dominance of things and their due subordination to ideals.”

“The home is the unit of society.”

“Good food, well cooked, is a potent factor in the development of the race.”

“The woman who has the courage to enter the laboratory and stand there in the face of the sneers of the men...has done more for the cause of woman's suffrage than all the eloquent speeches that were ever made.”

“Right living is a science. It is the science of Euthenics.”

“The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate.”

“The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach its members how to live in harmony with their environment.”

“The care of the home is the most important of all industries.”

“Control of the environment for the betterment of the race is the highest science of all.”

“I hope in a humble way to be the forerunner of a new age of respect for women.”

“For a comfortable, happy, and safe living, it is necessary that we have good houses, good food, good water, good clothes.”

“The great need of the world is the application of science to daily life.”

“A knowledge of the laws of life and sanitation is more important than a knowledge of the classics.”

“We have no right to leave the world a worse place than we found it.”