Tag: Eleanor Roosevelt
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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 without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt