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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes," Annika says. In theory, yes, but in this case I'm pretty sure Sherry's boss has the power to say both. "What's that?" Sherry says. She sounds hesitant, as if she's not sure where this is going. "It's a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt," Annika says. "Are you familiar with them?" "I know a few," Sherry says. "My best friend bought me a book of them. 'Do one thing every day that scares you' is what got me through my twenties. 'Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway.”

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Book:The Girl He Used to Know
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“By the summer of 1933, Eleanor's melancholy had passed. 'The times of depression are often felt as gaps,' a psychologist has written, 'temporary losses of certainty or identity which leave us feeling empty.' Seen in this light, Eleanor's despondency was the intervening period of chaos between the breakup of her old identity as teacher and political activist in New York State and the establishment of a new identity in the White House.”

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Book:No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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“They made an extraordinary team. She was more earnest, less devious, less patient, less fun, more uncompromisingly moral; he possessed the more trustworthy political talent, the more finely tuned sense of timing, the better feel for the citizenry, the smarter understanding of how to get things done. She could travel the country when he could not; she could speak her mind without the constraints of public office. She was the agitator; he was the politician. But they were linked by indissoluble bonds and they drew strength from each other.”

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Book:No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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“Eleanor Roosevelt's stand on civil rights, her insistence that America could not fight racism abroad while tolerating it at home, remains one of the affirming moments in the history of the home front during the war.”

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Book:No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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