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Eleanor Roosevelt

  • If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • You must do the thing you think you cannot do... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}