THE QUOTES - ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a Tea bag,
you never know how strong is it until it's in a hot water.
quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
(Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an
American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady
from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as
an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she
continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the
New Deal coalition. She was a suffragist who worked to enhance the
status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment
because she believed it would adversely affect women. In the 1940s, she
was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation
of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Association of
the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the
UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a
job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and
confirmed by the United States Congress. During her time at the United
Nations chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady
of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.She was one of the most admired persons of the 20th century, according to Gallup's List of Widely Admired People)