Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
Hunt, Caroline L. The Life of Ellen H. Richards. Whitcomb & Barrows, 1912, p. 98.
One of 5 very accomplished sisters of the prestigious Mitford family, she married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Her marriage, in 1936, took place at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honor. Subsequently, her involvement with right-wing political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War and social disgrace.and ostracism.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition.
