"She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would stroke her head and rub her forehead. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt's entire life was dedicated to two things: (one) making it better for all people, people in trouble and in need, like her family."

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Blanche Wiesen Cook

#Mother Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.”
“It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.”

Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1942). “Why is a Dress?: Who? What? When? Where?”
“My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.”

Source : "The Homework Myth". Book by Alfie Kohn, 2006.
“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.”
“We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey.”
“Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.”

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