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Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute…

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

— Westbrook Pegler

'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

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

“These new friends had fought for suffrage, they had won, and now they were determined to use the vote to advance women’s interests. They…

— Laura Shapiro

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

“An Eleanor, she told herself triumphantly, who belongs, who is talking easily, who is sitting by the fire with her friends.”

— Shirley Jackson

“Still, she assured herself as she unpacked her suitcase on the bed, Marx wrote his Manifesto one word at a time, with but pen…

— Mercedes Lackey

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

An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

— Markus Zusak

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