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" I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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" I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. "

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" 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. "

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" Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. "

" Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. "

" A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. "

" Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. "

" In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. "

" One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. "

" As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. "

" Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. "

" When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. "

" Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. "

" If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. "

" The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. "

" It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. "

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

" The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. "

" No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. "

" It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. "

" A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. "

" You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. "

" The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. "

" 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. "

" Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. "