Quotes

[on campaigning by train in 1940] I would get so tired. But I would try to keep clean. The bathtub in the railroad car would only hold about eight inches of water.

I remember Wendell saying to me, "Now, Billie, all life is a series of experiences. We may be up today, but let's not let all this affect us because we may be down tomorrow." It is too bad when we can't accept grief and we let it wreck us.

[on her first press conference after her husband's 1940 nomination for president] I had to meet 30 of the topmost reporters after having been up until 3 a.m. I don't know what I said but they all wrote nice stories. ... One reporter asked me how I felt when my husband was nominated. I said I was too numb to feel and her story said I was too dumb to feel.