October Novel Prep Challenge

Here's another good one from her:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' Eleanor Roosevelt

Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/eleanor-roosevelt-quotes

Mrs. Roosevelt didn't have an easy go of it. Both her parents died when she was young, her husband had an affair and then contracted polio and became paralyzed from the waist down, and his mother didn't especially like her. Plus she felt awkward and shy.

But oh my, what good she did. https://www.fdrlibrary.org/er-biography

Your history lesson for today...