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Men have to be reminded that women exist.

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
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
Reminded
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Women
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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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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The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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Beautiful old people are works of art.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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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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What one has to do usually can be done.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.
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