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The Last Years in Stockholm 155
old maid's desire for marriage! Those who
care to understand, feel that Ellen Key speaks
as one who does not consider herself or her own
fate although doomed by fate to be among
those who "sit alone by solitary fires." And "x)
her strength lies in not having lost the feeling -
for the great values of life, with all her
heart she desires for others what she has not
herself. Whatever the cause of Ellen Key's
singleness may have been, one cannot but
wonder at the amazing manner in which her
views of the happiness of love as the highest
life value have been interpreted, interpreta-
tions by which she would have deemed her own
life valueless. Many know how rich Ellen
Key has made her lonely life, and it has indeed
not been easy for her to believe that she could
be misinterpreted to such an extent as that
she would have all women return to the kitchen
hearth and the nursery, while she herself was
engaged in large public activities. It has been
all the harder for her to tmderstand this, as
the consistency between her words and her
actions is one of the strong traits in her charac-
ter, and if she had wanted to turn women back
to private life she herself would have been the
first to return thither.
Ellen Key has never taken part in public
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