“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt · Life quote

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. — Eleanor Roosevelt quote card
Diplomat and activist · 1884 – 1962

Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945, and reinvented the role as a platform for civil rights and social reform. Afterward she became a US delegate to the United Nations and chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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