Blanche Wiesen Cook Quotes About Brothers

Quotes about: Brothers

• And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Brother, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Brother, Children, Grandmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Brother, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Brother, Pain, Grief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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