31. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
By the time young Eleanor was a paltry seven years old, she had understood what being a disappointment was. Her mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, was a quintessential Victorian woman in New York City. She found her daughter’s sagging eyes and homely mannerisms to be less than what she had hoped for in a daughter. Her father, however, thought differently.