More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."
"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."