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Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Actors are one family over the entire world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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 should be curiosity.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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