“Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen." And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.” ThinkingBeautifulMotherConstantStartingArticlesContrastBeautiful WomenLifelongEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French.” KnowsWorldWritingMeanChildrenStoriesSchoolBeautifulGirlSpeakPerfectWonderfulTalentGrewGrew UpSpokesEssaysAppreciatedEleanorMarieSpeaks FrenchWonderful ChildrenSpeaking French Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party. He loved to sing. He loved to have fun. And he wrote beautiful letters, just as her father did, which - alas and alack - Eleanor Roosevelt destroyed. But she refers to his beautiful letters. And she was charmed by him.” ThinkingBeautifulFatherFunPartyLettersDestroyedHaving FunCharmingAlasEleanorCharmedDashingDebonair Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.” MadeIdeasEnoughBeautifulRomanceSpiritMotherCoursesStyleCoupleNotionDearTallCharmingFranklin Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.” FirstsWellsHardBeautifulYoungReturnEuropeAffairHard TimesTallThickSecretaryYoung WomenFluBlondeFranklinVery BeautifulLucyEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
