Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

I had a dream, a dream where the world didn’t care about the color of our skin, about our beliefs, about our gender.

I can tell you, I am REAL FEMINIST. I had a happy childhood but I lost my parents when I was very young. After that dramatic event I was sent to a school called Allenswood Academy where the director became like a maternal figure, her name was Marie Souvestre, and she taught me the feminist’s ideals.

But don’t get me wrong, I don’t defend just women’s; I wish that everyone can have the same opportunities, I wish equality and respect.

I was the first presidential wife who made press conference, who wrote a colleen in a newspaper unionized, who speak in a national convection and I wasn’t afraid to disagree and to public state that I didn’t agreed with some political ideas of my husband, Franklin Roosevelt the President of United States. I became a voice in the Withe House that insisted that everyone deserved the benefits equally.

I started to launch an experimental community in Arthudale, West Virginia to families of the unemployed miners but it was a failure. I defended expanded roles for women in the workplace, civil rights for African Americans and Japanese Americans, and the rights of refugees of World War II.

After my husband death I continue to be an advocate, spokesperson, international activist for the New Deal coalition. I worked to improve the status of working women, although I was against the policy of equal rights, because I believe that it would adversely affect women. That shows that we don’t need Men for anything (well in some subjects we need).

 

She was a spectacular woman, so isn’t strange when people state that she was one of the most conceptualized women in the world and an object of admiration worldwide. She did a lot, especially in terms on Human rights; we can forget that was she who oversaw the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights. So it is more than fair to say that she is THE FIRST LADY OF THE WORLD!

President Truman

Published by: Margarida