![Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy [Reagan] felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."](/assets/img/quote-photos/eleanor-roosevelt-was-painfully-shy-painfully-shy-so-she-overcompensated-in-th.jpg)
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