In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Other quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.