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Firsts Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
- After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world,…
- You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
- Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
- A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
- Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.…
- Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
- No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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