ROLE MODELS WE LIKE: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. We know that the women of the bush are doing it tough right now. They are keeping their husbands, partners and families together, their communities together, and they are the strength that binds. As Elanor Roosevelt once famously said, you never know how strong a woman is until you put her in hot water. Here are a few more of her quotes to keep you inspired. “….You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along”. ‘”….’People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. “….You must do the things you think you cannot do. ‘”….In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. “….With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. “….It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelts four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the First Lady of the World in tribute to her human rights achievements. A member of the Roosevelt and Livingston families, Eleanor had an unhappy childhood, suffering the deaths of both parents and one of her brothers at a young age. At 15, she attended Allenwood Academy in London, and was deeply influenced by its feminist headmistress Marie Souvestre. Returning to the U.S., she married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905. The Roosevelts marriage was complicated from the beginning by Franklins controlling mother, Sara, and after discovering Franklins affair with Lucy Mercer in 1918, Eleanor resolved to seek fulfilment in a public life of her own. She persuaded Franklin to stay in politics following his partial paralysis from polio, and began to give speeches and campaign in his place. After Franklins election as Governor of New York, Eleanor regularly made public appearances on his behalf. She also shaped the role of First Lady during her tenure and beyond. Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly her stance on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husbands policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia, for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees. Following her husbands death, Eleanor remained active in politics for the rest of her life. She pressed the US to join and support the United Nations and became one of its first delegates. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administrations Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. By the time of her death, she was regarded as one of the most esteemed women in the world and the object of almost universal respect.[3] In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallups List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.
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