No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.


Eleanor Roosevelt

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Help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it may be.
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I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
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She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
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She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
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She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt.
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She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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No matter how fast a lie is, the truth will catch up with her.
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I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside.
A face no one recognized be...
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beau...
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...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...
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A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.
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She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.
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The search for truth is not yet over, the President and her allies will be haunted by the accusation...
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The woman who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right.... But she is more often left.
UNKNOWN
A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of mal...
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Life's Irony;No matter how great a company may appear externally,there will still be internal squabb...
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her...
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that f...
CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA
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Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
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She gets a man who will love her completely and faithfully. She gets a man who will not only save he...
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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANON.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANONYMOUS
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her
IVAN PANIN
She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perf...
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Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
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What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Sev...
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If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ...
PETER KREEFT
Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so mu...
SUSAN ANTON
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
PARIS HILTON
A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.
LAURA LEE GUHRKE
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
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Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings....
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Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won
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A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music — th...
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiment...
WILLIAM JAMES
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...
FULTON J. SHEEN
We make love every single day — no matter what. She is the only woman I’ve seen that gets more b...
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You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, She is beautiful because you love her.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
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There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
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I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
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When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
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Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it....
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peac...
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always...
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I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th...
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of ensla...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments ...
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My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t...
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t...
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To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th...
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc...
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A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
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It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
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Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
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For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
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The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
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Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
«Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
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My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
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