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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.

  • 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 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 - Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and – and to make her live, you know, make her want to live.

    Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and – and to make her live, you know, make her want to live.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, “My mother was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.” And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.

    Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, “My mother was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.” And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it’s very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters. Download This Image

    I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it’s very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.

    In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.

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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 - 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.

    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 - 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 - You know, unloved, judged harshly, never up to par. And she was her father’s favorite, and her mother’s unfavorite. So her father was the man that she went to for comfort in her imaginings.

    You know, unloved, judged harshly, never up to par. And she was her father’s favorite, and her mother’s unfavorite. So her father was the man that she went to for comfort in her imaginings.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - 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 writing.

    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 writing.

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    Eleanor Roosevelt doesn’t ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things.

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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 - She’s very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they’re accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli. Download This Image

    She’s very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they’re accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I mean, in the campaign of ’24 and in ’28 and ’32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates.

    I mean, in the campaign of ’24 and in ’28 and ’32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And there’s something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents’ death.

    And there’s something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents’ death.

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