If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.


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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON
I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON
Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON
The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER
One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER
It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER
This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER
The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT