Comfortable Quote by Clare Boothe Luce

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

Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats. My childhood…

— Florence King

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

— Ralph McGill

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

At summits Margaret Tatcher was the only woman. Always perfectly coiffed, splendidly dressed - beautiful maroon or dark blue suits. That lovely diamond brooch.…

— Brian Mulroney

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 Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything…

— Cynthia Nixon

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

— Queen Elizabeth II

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every…

— Washington Irving

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

“Sentiment would undo her - each of its ties were a tether that would hold her from her purpose. Men, perhaps, might nourish both…

— Rachel Kadish