Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds…

Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute…

— Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary…

— Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one…

— 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

And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of Tivoli (which…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

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

I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally.…

— 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

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

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 Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is…

— 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