Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

Eleanor Roosevelt

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the work that’s done in the world gets done by people who weren’t feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever ‘own’ another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Eleanor Roosevelt