My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.Eleanor Roosevelt
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt
day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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