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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON
I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON
Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON
The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX
Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A...
ELEANOR CATTON
The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
ELEANOR MONDALE
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON
A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag...
ELEANOR CATTON
I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or med...
ELEANOR CATTON
Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There’s no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there’s only ignorance. You think ...
ELEANOR CATTON
We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serio...
ELEANOR CATTON
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT