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'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

— Gail Honeyman

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Eleanor was charming. That is to say, her manner seemed designed to merit that description: she displayed towards us a sort of girlish archness,…

— Sarah Caudwell

I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.

— Shonda Rhimes

“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.”

— Marcel Proust

“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to…

— Rett MacPherson

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me —…

— Peter S. Beagle

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who…

— Francesca Lia Block

“It made me start to wonderif there were other people so loney so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which…

— Marie Corelli

“It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain…

— Siri Hustvedt