Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Rooseveltwas an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 October 1884
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.