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  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.
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I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - We need something like the League of Nations. We need to work together to fight fascism. We need embargoes against aggressor nations, and we need to name aggressor nations. All of which is a direct contradiction of FDR’s policies.

    We need something like the League of Nations. We need to work together to fight fascism. We need embargoes against aggressor nations, and we need to name aggressor nations. All of which is a direct contradiction of FDR’s policies.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - She only writes about her father’s agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.

    She only writes about her father’s agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - 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 really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

    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 really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize.

    So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout.

    I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women’s movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

    She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women’s movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he’s a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners.

    She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he’s a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know,

    And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know,

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - 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 where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That’s where she allowed her emotions to really evolve.

    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 where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That’s where she allowed her emotions to really evolve.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt. Download This Image

    One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline – and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours,

    I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline – and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours,

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they’re sick, rather than take to their beds.

    And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they’re sick, rather than take to their beds.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed.

    Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father.

    Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

    They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

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