So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What…

And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And…

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A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they…

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And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also,…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And…

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In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always…

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I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's…

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Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie…

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But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved…

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Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going…

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Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's…

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I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook