"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.“
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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-Dame Edith Evans
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"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
-Alexandre Vinet
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-Bill Hunter
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