cornhobble: (.Dumbledore - Fabulous!)
cornhobble ([personal profile] cornhobble) wrote2011-04-03 03:02 pm

GOOD NEWS DAY

Apparently, Eleanor Roosevelt was totally gay.

Here's a quote from a letter she wrote to longtime ~friend~, journalist Lorena Hickok. March 7, 1933:

Hick darling,
All day I've thought of you & another birthday I will be with you, & yet tonite you sounded so far away & formal. Oh! I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort to me. I look at it and think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing it.


OMG. She also, according to wikipedia, wore a blue sapphire ring during her husband's inauguration. Another quote:

I wish I could lie down beside you tonight & take you in my arms.


I already knew Eleanor Roosevelt was awesome, but I didn't realize she was THIS awesome. :D Day. Made.
ext_2410: (Aha!)

[identity profile] kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you should have just asked me. I could have told you all about Eleanor and Lorena. It's an open secret :)

[identity profile] rellan.livejournal.com 2011-04-04 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, Eleanor played for the girls team. I think that's part of the reason she didn't mind hubby's mistress.