"Women are like teabags. We don't know..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
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“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.”
“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
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“Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.”
“Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.”
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
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“I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!”
“There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.”
“Never run away from anything. Never!”