QuoteQuest“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
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- Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Context
Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xvi; the last line was originally used in the initial edition of her autobiography: This Is My Story (1937)
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Roosevelt, Eleanor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt
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