Eleanor and Hick Quotes

“I know of no other woman who could learn to do so many things after 50 and to do them so well as you have.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“we have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that ‘the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“His great love, however, was the detective story, which he described as “the one dependable and unfailing anodyne in a world so realistically murderous that fictive murder becomes refuge and retreat.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“Love is a queer thing, it hurts but it gives so much more in return!”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“And now,” she concluded, “I shall have to work out my own salvation”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“In thirty succinct articles, it addresses both what human rights should be universal—life, liberty, security, equality before the law, privacy, freedom of movement, freedom of expression—but also what is not acceptable to the community of nations: slavery, torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, denial of nationhood, political persecution.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“Hard position when you don’t want to be a dictator but you want your own way,” Eleanor wrote Hick.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“Churchill gave the perfect riposte: “When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think, my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it. Whatever is asked of us I am sure we can accomplish it. We are the free and unconquerable people of the United States of America.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“It seems to me the world is almost too black to behold,” Gellhorn wrote Eleanor in February 1938. “Half of it is bullied and terrorized and debased by dictators and half of it is soppy with cowardice and sloth and selfishness.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“I am unable to lead a life based on an illusion.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

“she was not able or willing to devote herself to just one other person. She was always going to be tied not only to a husband but to bonds of duty and friendship with many others.”
― Susan Quinn, Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady