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Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.


Eleanor Catton

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
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