The women who have inspired me are Eleanor Roosevelt (equliaty), Mother Teresa (service and love), Lucille Ball (laughter) and Erma Bombeck (realism).

 

Eleanor Roosevelt:

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.   Curiosity must be kept alive.   One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.            

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Mother Teresa:

  Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

               Loneliness is the most terrible poverty

Lucille Ball:

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

          One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Erma Bombeck:

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”