Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Husband, Book, Wife

• It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Taken, Sides, Curious

• I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wife, Majority, Politics

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Children, Home

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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