What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt

<p><strong>From one of the world's most celebrated and admired public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt, a collection of her most treasured sayings--the perfect gift for Mother's Day, graduation, and a new generation of feminists.</strong></p><p><strong>With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi</strong></p><p><em>No one can make you feel inferior without your consent</em>. We've all heard this powerful Eleanor Roosevelt adage--it is, perhaps, one of her best known. A wise leader, she knew the power of words, and throughout her work as First Lady, a UN representative, and advocate for human rights, women, youth, minorities, and workers, she was a prolific writer and speaker. </p><p>Eleanor's wise words on government, race and ethnicity, freedom, democracy, economics, women and gender, faith, children, war, peace, and our everyday lives leap off the page in memorable quotations such as: </p><p>- <em>One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.</em></p><p>- <em>Progress is rarely achieved by indifference.</em> </p><p>- <em>I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them. </em></p><p>- <em>Unless people are willing to face the unfamiliar they cannot be creative in any sense, for creativity always means the doing of the unfamiliar, the breaking of new ground.</em></p><p>...and these are just a few. </p><p>