My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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About Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international…
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside wit…
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next th…
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and whic…
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at m…
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside wit…
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!