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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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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Every day do something that frightens you.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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All of life is a constant education.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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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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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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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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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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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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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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