You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. – Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag – you cant tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early