Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook [Cook, Blanche Wiesen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101567463
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 1993-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

OUT OF THE CRUCIBLE OF FDR’S ILLNESS, THE ROOSEVELTS’ lives were transformed once again. Eleanor considered Franklin’s triumph over his disability “a blessing in disguise.” Although many believe that his strength of character predated his bout with polio, and served to help him transcend his cruel circumstances, ER believed that his struggle “gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons—infinite patience and never-ending persistence.” She believed that during these grueling months and years of recovery he developed a new seriousness about himself, and a deeper empathy for other people.

His disability also caused ER to reconsider her own skills. She had, for example, never played with her children. That had always been her husband’s domain. Now she realized that, if her youngest boys were “going to have a normal existence without a father to do these things with them, I would have to become a good deal more companionable and more of an all-around person than I had ever been before.”

Now, inspired by her new friends, virtually all of whom knew far more than she did about games and diversions, Eleanor became a willing sport. She again took swimming lessons so she could get into the water with her boys; and began to hike, and camp, and run, and romp. She drove her own car, played cards, sailed, and became altogether a more adventurous, as well as a more considerate, person.

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