Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in New York City.

In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back.