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 first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president, making her the longest-serving first lady...
I wouldn't mind being dead — it would be something new.
—Estelle Winwood, at age one hundred
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.