I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood…

I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would stroke her…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather…

— 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 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

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this.…

— William A. Rusher

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do,” Eleanor Roosevelt once observed, and her life was spent proving the point.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Because high school only comes around once, and I would hate to look back and think I didn’t make the most of every moment…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her…

— William A. Rusher

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt”

— Anonymous

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

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