"Women are like tea bags: put them..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.”

“You do the things that need to be done according to priority.”

“It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.”

“Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.”

“Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.”

“Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.”

“For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.”

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.”