"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.“
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
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