Eleanor Roosevelt clearly was a woman with a great spirit, passionate for making herself and her world better. In her book, she shared those things that you would want a mentor to share. It would make a great gift for a graduate or young adult.

She found each person, conversation and experience a teacher, thus never being bored and certainly never being boring.

My favorite quotes from it include:
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” As I am in my 30's and have faced personal struggles that I couldn't imagine getting past in my 20's, I realize how true this is. Anytime I have had something difficult, I keep thinking of the hardest things I weathered and I feel encouraged. I like that she didn't hear no and give up.

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.” This encouraged me to spend more time in reflection on what I am consuming and not just moving on immediately to the next thing. Starting a booktube channel has helped with this as I have been more intentional to mark/write quotes. It does me no good to read or live and not to reflect back on what it meant.

I highly recommend this one!