Bits Quote by William A. Rusher

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

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

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

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

'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 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

It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

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

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her…

— 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

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

That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in…

— William A. Rusher