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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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New York City
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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