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  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.
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On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - There was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn’t censored. Download This Image

    There was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn’t censored.

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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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    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 - 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 - She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn’t have a good mother of her own. And so there’s a kind of parenting that doesn’t happen.

    She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn’t have a good mother of her own. And so there’s a kind of parenting that doesn’t happen.

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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 - 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 in a new level of politics.

    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 in a new level of politics.

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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 - 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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband’s policies? Download This Image

    So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband’s policies?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And that’s where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love. Download This Image

    And that’s where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, “I cannot believe you’re not going to say one word.” And she writes to Walter White, “I’ve asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will.” But he doesn’t. And these become very bitter disagreements.

    And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, “I cannot believe you’re not going to say one word.” And she writes to Walter White, “I’ve asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will.” But he doesn’t. And these become very bitter disagreements.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.

    Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.

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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 - 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 - 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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