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I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Girl, Successful, Thinking
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Religion, Important, Important Things
Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Staying, Evasion, Solutions

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Gossip, Romance, Mixtures
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Women, People
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Fighting, Government, Hands
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Enthusiasm, Reason, Easier
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Leader, Inspire

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Order, World, Opinion
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

Every age is an unknown country.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Age
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.75, Penguin

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Priorities, Needs, Done

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Learning, Vision, World

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Political, Goldfish, Politics
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Music, Book

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Vision, Would Be, Satisfaction

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Giving, Guests, Hospitality
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Husband, Talking, People

What one has to do usually can be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Encouraging, Work, Political
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life And Love, Honor, Important

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Eleanor Roosevelt
Birthday, This Too Shall Pass, Advantage
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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
Birthday, Family, Mother
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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
Power, Men, Expression
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.181, Columbia University Press

Life is meant to be lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life Is, Meant To Be

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Healthy, Democracy, Citizens
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Believe, People

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