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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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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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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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