After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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