“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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.”
— 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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Actors are one family over the entire world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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