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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Games, Would Be

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Believe, Men
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Average, People, Focus

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Laughing, Looks, Serious
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Compromise, Ifs

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Nightmare, Hours

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Talking, Wife, Car

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peaceful, Needs, Done

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Glasses, Years
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.60, Westminster John Knox Press

Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Girl, Real, Home

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, People, Safety
"My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. December 20, 1961.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Discovery, World

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Fate, Puppets, Creatures

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, Generations, Problem

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

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

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Littles, Little Things
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wise, Religious, Attitude

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, Children, War

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, War, Principles

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Women, Real, Thinking
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.99, Westminster John Knox Press

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Writing, Men, Circles
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Taken, Sides, Curious

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

Eleanor Roosevelt
World, Assets, Resources
"Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 71), 1963.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Mistake, Believe

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Thinking, Views
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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