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
I think that, very often there's a pain that's just too painful to touch. You'll break apart. And I think her mother's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Abandonment 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
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
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
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 think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Ardor 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
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
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 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
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
I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Alas Copy Share Image
It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Arrangements Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Blame 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
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
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
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
“You cannot take anything personally. You cannot bear grudges. You must finish the day’s work when the day’s work is done. You… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Best friend 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
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
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
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
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