Eleanor Roosevelt

Date of Birth:

11-Oct-1884

Nationality:

United States

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Eleanor Roosevelt was the nephew of one U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt, and married the man who would become another, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Explaining the role of the first woman, she advocated for human rights and women, held press conferences and wrote her own book. After leaving the White House in 1945, Eleanor became chairman of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. The first wife to go bankrupt in 1962 in New York City.

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

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