Eleanor Quotes - Page 5

• At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Beautiful, Sleep, Men

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• What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Book, Writing, Offering

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Inspirational, Comfortable

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• You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.” ... “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Princess, Kissing, Sky

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.226, St. Martin's Griffin

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• For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Home, School, Next Day

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. “You’re kind of mean,” he said. “Don’t laugh. It just encourages me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mean, Laughing, Kind

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

  Christine Quinn

  Dog, Kings, School

  "Leave a Place Setting for Ann". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

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• It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Believe, Needs, Lasts

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.272, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Missing Someone, Loss, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.276, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her. The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Dark, Hair

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.271, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Wise, Stars

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.30, Penguin

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• It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lonely, People, Wonder

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.

  Rainbow Rowell

  World

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.229, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war and so on. She was not all that good a writer. She was a little bit on the banal side, and you know, what happened, and then this happened, and then that happened... But I will say this. She got very well paid for it.

  William A. Rusher

  War, Littles, Sides

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

  Gail Collins

  Impact, Ideas, Two

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• These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Use, Cash

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Thinking, Ozarks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.

  William A. Rusher

  Cracks, Franklin, Intention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.

  William A. Rusher

  People, Attention, Social Activism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.

  William A. Rusher

  Years, People, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen it in Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan and, heaven knows, Hillary Clinton. So the problem has not been solved.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Play, Heaven

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Criticism, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her credit that she was interested in this, let me say. But once again, I'm not sure the extent to which Roosevelt - I guess he did use her really, particularly on the civil rights front. No question about it, because she was well identified out there, and brought a good many blacks into the Administration, into the White House, into his presence and so on.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Rights, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman.

  Karen Abbott

  Writing, Rose, Shining

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

  Madeleine Albright

  Want, Clinton, Various

  "American Word Interview with Madeleine Albright". Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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