Brutal honesty Quote by Gail Honeyman

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

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

These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in…

— William A. Rusher

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

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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

What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she…

— Cynthia Nixon

Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She…

— 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

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all…

— Westbrook Pegler