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" The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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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" The giving of love is an education in itself. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "

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" 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. "

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" Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. "

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" In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. "

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" You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' "

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" Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. "

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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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" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. "

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

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" Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. "

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