# Quote — Susan Cain, Quiet

> Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

- Author: [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md)
- Book: [Quiet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Cain#Quiet) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/eleanor-roosevelt-rosa

## More from this book

> We need systems that reward the best ideas, not the best presenters.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/we-need-systems.md)

> I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing … I like to think before I speak (softly).

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/i-prefer-listening.md)

> Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/solitude-matters-and.md)