Eleanor Roosevelt: "A woman is like a tea bag—you can't..."

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement,...

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

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Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

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It isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day.

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

A woman is like a tea bag—you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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