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
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
We must do that which we think we cannot.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them...
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The war for freedom will never really be wonbecause the price of our freedom is constant vigilanceover ourselves and over our Government.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.