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
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
You do the things that need to be done according to priority.
We need our radicals.
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.