Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt Download Open image ““Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt”” — Eleanor Roosevelt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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 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 stroke her… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“There is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly. —Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor… — Christine K. Jahnke Copy Share Image
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share
“It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“Miss Volker,” I said about as politely as I knew how, “do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?” “I… — Jack Gantos 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 say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share
“I do not mind riding in day coaches...Please do not put yourself or the railroad to extra expense.--First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt” — Marc Peyser Copy Share
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
