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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), First Lady of the United States, author, speaker, and diplomat. This Is My Story, ch. 10 (1937).

On her conventionality in 1913, when her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, became Assistant Secretary of the Navy. She would go on to become the most individualistic, publicly active, and personally distinguished First Lady in history.

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