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
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
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.
We need our radicals.
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live...
Happiness isn't a goal. It's a by-product.
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.