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Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1884.
* She was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States.
* She married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905.
* She became the longest-serving First Lady of the United States in 1933.
* She was a strong advocate for human rights and social justice.
* She served as a delegate to the United Nations from 1945 to 1952.
* She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1946.
* She died in 1962 at the age of 78.
* She is considered one of the most influential women in American history.
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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.
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