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

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies…

— William A. Rusher

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

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

For too long, women in America were excluded from our government and the political process.

— Byron Donalds

What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she…

— Cynthia Nixon

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

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People…

— William A. Rusher

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her…

— Karen DeCrow

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from…

— Alice Paul

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were…

— Cokie Roberts

Women do not want to be dependent on government but want opportunities for all Americans to succeed.

— Mercedes Schlapp