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appear on talk radio. Later in her career
she served as a U.S. delegate to the United
Nations, where she used her unusual
brand of political skills and hard-won
toughness to help win passage of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
She never did outgrow her vulnerability;
all her life she suffered dark
“Griselda moods,” as she called them
(named for a princess in a medieval legend
who withdrew into silence), and
struggled to “develop skin as tough as
rhinoceros hide.” “I think people who
are shy remain shy always, but they
learn how to overcome it,” she said.
But it was perhaps this sensitivity that
made it easy for her to relate to the disenfranchised,
and conscientious enough
to act on their behalf. FDR, elected at
the start of the Depression, is remembered
for his compassion. But it
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