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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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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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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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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.
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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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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 shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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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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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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