Dedicated Quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook

And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally.…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in…

— William A. Rusher

Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen." And I…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People…

— William A. Rusher

I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war and so…

— William A. Rusher

I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a true humanitarian and champion of Women's Rights…

— Jill Biden