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
If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!
Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
Choose a challenge instead of competence
...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.
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. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.