Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live…

Eleanor Roosevelt