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... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Attribution: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. First Lady, author, and speaker. As quoted in Eleanor and Franklin, ch. 50, by Joseph P. Lash (1971). Written on October 17, 1940, as her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, approached his third Presidential election, which he won.

Categories: And Speaker, Author, First Ladies Of The United States, First Lady, Private Life, Public Life

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