Ellen Key — Swedish Writer born on December 11, 1849,

Ellen Karolina Sofia Key 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... (wikipedia)

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
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.
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.