Ellen Key - Children Quotes

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The higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself... to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

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