About Ellen Swallow Richards:
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was an industrial and environmental chemist 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.
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
Ellen Swallow RichardsIf you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
Ellen Swallow Richards