Absolutes Quote by Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary…

— Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

— Rachel Holmes

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

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' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

— Gail Honeyman

Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

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

I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And…

— 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 think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this.…

— 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