#eleanor

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#love #respect #love

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-understand-its-meaning #life

You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#eleanor-park #park #rainbow-rowell #swoon #young-adult-contemporary-romance

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. ↗

— Allen Funt

#eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #go #her #hold

I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "I know," she said. He pulled one of his arms out from under her and traced her outline against the couch. He could spend all day like this, running his hand down her ribs, into her waist, out to her hips and back again.... If he had all day, he would. If she weren't made of so many other miracles. "You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#eleanor-park #park #rainbow-rowell #swoons #young-adult-contemporary-romance

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#woman

She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#henry-ii #anger

Well-behaved women seldom make history. ↗

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#it-s-so-true #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #women #inspirational

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#recycled-by-bil-keane #recycled-by-eleanor-roosevelt #children

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. ↗

— Bil Keane

#inspirational #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #past #present #widely-misattributed