Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democrac.