Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband’s death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

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• Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
• If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
• Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
• It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
•  Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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