“Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be… — 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
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this;… — 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
