No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.