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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

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I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

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First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers...

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My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified.... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

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Rosalynn Carter

Rosalynn Carter
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Born: August 18, 1927
Died: November 19, 2023 (aged 96)
Bio: Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was an American writer, activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter.
Known for:
  1. First Lady from Plains (1984)
  2. Helping someone with mental illness (1998)

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