Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“Actors are one family over the entire world.”

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

“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.”

“Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”

“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”

“Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”

“Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!”

“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.”