Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, read more

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. read more

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

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.