No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt · Smartyfair

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt · Smartyfair

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962 · activist · 1900s USAEleanor Roosevelt was a First Lady of the United States who became a powerful voice for human rights.9 quotes

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Nobody can make you feel small unless you let them.

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How sure this is: 42% sureLots of sources credit Eleanor Roosevelt with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up: widely attributed, no primary source found — Wikiquote Disputed section: claimed to be from "This Is My Story" (1937) but FDR Library archivists could not locate it there; may be a paraphrase from an interview.
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