Eleanor Roosevelt was an extraordinary woman. I feel fortunate to have gotten to know her a little more through her book. This book is broken into eleven key chapters.
1 - Learning to Learn
2 - Fear: The Great Enemy
3 - The Uses of Time
4 - The Difficult Art of Maturity
5 - Readjustment is Endless
6 - Learning to be Useful
7 - The Right to be an Individual
8 - How to Get the Best out of People
9 - Facing Responsibility
10 - How Everyone can Take Part in Politics
11 - Learning to be a Public Servant

The over arching theme in her voice is to take responsibility for yourself and get involved.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from her....

"It is only by inducing others to go along that changes are accomplished and work is done."

"By the time we are adult we are the sum total of the choices we have made."

"Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done".

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."