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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
Autobiographer
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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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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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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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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...without equality there can be no democracy.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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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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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
Eleanor Roosevelt
