Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Environment Copy Share Image
And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Brother Copy Share Image
And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Compromise Copy Share Image
Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Alcoholics Copy Share Image
So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Articles Copy Share Image
On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Again and again Copy Share Image
Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Abandonment Copy Share Image
I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Amount Copy Share Image
But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Despair Copy Share Image
And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Discipline Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Appreciated Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Again and again Copy Share Image
I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Comfort Copy Share Image
And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Beautiful Copy Share Image
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Age Copy Share Image
In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Accounts Copy Share Image
Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Adventure Copy Share Image
And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Athlete Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is,… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Copy Share Image
I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Campaigns Copy Share Image
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small they cannot be seen… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Equal justice Copy Share Image
I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Ability Copy Share Image
Her [Eleanor Roosevelt] father was the love of her life. Her father always made her feel wanted, made her feel loved, where… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Comfort Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Attention Copy Share Image
One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Biographers Copy Share Image
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