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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Amazing things 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
And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Balls Copy Share Image
So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Book Copy Share Image
And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Brother Copy Share Image
She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Could have been Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen."… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Articles 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
She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Big houses Copy Share Image
By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Aggressors Copy Share Image
And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Active Copy Share Image
I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Agendas Copy Share Image
Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Affair Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Bigs Copy Share Image
I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Agony Copy Share Image
I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Age Copy Share Image
Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Adults Copy Share Image
Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Bed Copy Share Image
She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Dedicated Copy Share Image
And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Age 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 very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace…” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b22/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_despair_but-it-s-also-the-beginning-of-another-l_701343.jpg)
![“And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also, she's tall. She's one of the tallest girls in the school. And she's an athlete. And she writes many years later, at the end of her life, she writes that the happiest day…” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d59/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_athlete_and-she-eleanor-roosevelt-loves-being-a_1156436.jpg)
![“And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of Tivoli (which is a framework of discipline and order) is also a very encouraging and loving one.” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/307/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_discipline_and-her-eleanor-roosevelt-grandmother-ha_759497.jpg)
![“So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd0/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_book_so-she-eleanor-roosevelt-is-an-amazing-f_2185464.jpg)
![“And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/917/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_brother_and-in-her-eleanor-roosevelt-letters-she_2899813.jpg)
![“She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/58d/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_could-have-been_she-eleanor-roosevelt-wants-a-life-of-he_2389719.jpg)
![“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption…” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f1/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_bigs_it-s-interesting-to-me-that-really-one-o_2389950.jpg)
