Eleanor Quotes

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.