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She's an AWESOME lady. I saw a little of this this morning, a little this afternoon and tomorrow I'll try to watch the WHOLE show. The more I learn about her the more I like her. She'll be our modern day Eleanor Roosevelt. She'll be a GREAT first lady.
Eleanor....Teresa reminds me of her. Outspoken, kindhearted and strong.
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." January 8, 1936
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think." January 22, 1936
"...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers." March 19, 1936
"I wish for those I love this New Year an opportunity to earn sufficient, to have that which they need for their own and to give that which they desire to others, to bring into the lives of those about them some measure of joy, to know the satisfaction of work well done, of recreation earned and therefore savored, to end the year a little wiser, a little kinder and therefore a little happier." January 1, 1937
"It is not so much what people do in this world as their reasons for doing it which really makes a difference. Sacrifices are not so important as the reasons for which you sacrifice, and no sacrifice is any good which remains ever present as such." May 13, 1937
"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands..." December 4, 1937
"...the kind of calm which comes when one has done the best one can." April 17, 1938
"...it seems difficult to make humanity rise to certain heights except in crises." September 23, 1938
"Without doubt human beings are the most interesting study in the world." January 5, 1939
"...all wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished." February 7, 1939
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death." April 1, 1939
"...many people have so much to bear themselves that sympathy for anyone else is out of the question." April 13, 1939
"Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter." May 31, 1939
"...the only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are." June 6, 1939
"I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government." June 20, 1939
"...the things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was." July 13, 1939
"...laws are only observed with he consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law." July 14, 1939
"How can the men who have enacted this legislation go home and face their wives and children, when they have decreed starvation for other men's wives and children?" August 8, 1939
"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?" October 16, 1939
"We have all made such a fetish of financial success and forgotten frequently that success of any kind, when it does not include success in one's personal relationships, is bound in the end to leave both the man and the woman with very little real satisfaction." October 20, 1939
"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!" January 26, 1940
"...so often people you admire at a distance do not mean so much to you after you meet them." February 12, 1940
"I have felt that people were 'mean-mad' at times and wondered if life were not treating them so harshly that they were unable to retain any of the qualities which make people lovable and that make life worth living." February 23, 1940
"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor." February 23, 1940
"When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars." May 9, 1940
"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." July 1, 1940
"...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand." September 4, 1940
"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it." September 23, 1940
"...marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career." March 28, 1941
"I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis." March 28, 1941
"I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable." April 15, 1941
"...it is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on." May 29, 1941
"This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?" June 18, 1941
"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it." July 7, 1941
"...whatever come we have to meet it." August 16, 1941
"...one should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable." September 11, 1941
"Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit." January 14, 1942
"...to some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation." January 14, 1942
"My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind." September 21, 1942
"One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short." February 5, 1943
"At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want--for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war." April 15, 1943
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted." May 11, 1943
"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth." August 22, 1944
"...without equality there can be no democracy." October 12, 1944
"...I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could." November 8, 1944
"...at any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year." January 1, 1945
"I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am..." February 10, 1945
"An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations." February 14, 1945
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