Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
Eleanor RooseveltEvery woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Eleanor RooseveltObedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
Eleanor RooseveltA mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Eleanor Roosevelt