Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 - 1962
1898 school portrait
Born: 11 October 1884, New York City
Died: 7 November 1962, New York City
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born at New York City on this day in 1884. When she was eight her mother died and her father was confined in a sanitarium and died two years later. She was tutored at home and, at 15, sent to Allenswood Academy outside London. In 1903 she was engaged to a fifth cousin, Franklin and married him in 1905. Although her relationship with her uncle Theodore was always positive, her marriage into the "Hyde Park" Roosevelts put her at odd with most of her own family, the "Oyster Bay" Roosevelts. After FDR contracted polio in 1921, Eleanor began to move confidently in New York state Democratic circles, initially representing her husband but developing her own public stature. She was the most active and public first lady, holding weekly news conferences and writing a weekly column. She traveled widely, representing the administration with those most affected by the Depression, and served hot dogs to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939. During the war she visited wounded soldiers, including in the south Pacific and was active in support of women and blacks serving in the war effort. She was US delegate to the United Nations from 1947-1952, and remained public and vocal, serving as a trustee of Brandeis University and Chaired the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. She received 48 honorary degrees.
Biography from Wikipedia and the FDR Library
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes:
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- A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
- A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
- A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Anger is one letter away from danger.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
- As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
- Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
- 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.
- Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.
- During prohibition I observed the law meticulously, but I came gradually to see that laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.
- Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
- Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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