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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration. President Harry S. Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

There is… a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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