“She was so open and frank… She made space around her, if we just behaved… Everybody seemed to trust this woman and gathered gladly around her.”

—  Ingeborg Refling Hagen

On Eleanor Roosevelt, volume III
Memoirs

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Norwegian writer 1895–1989

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