No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Where these words come from
- 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.
- 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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