[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with…

Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a…

— Charles M. Schulz

Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet…

— Madeleine Albright

Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People…

— William A. Rusher

But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers.…

— Allen Funt

On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies…

— William A. Rusher