Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Rooseveltwas an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 October 1884
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly.
Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
The most important word in the English language is hope.
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.