Eleanor Roosevelt ( 10 of 52 )
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I read more
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving read more
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read read more
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. read more
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.
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I read more
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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 would be curiosity.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
