"I wish I could lie down beside you tonight & take you in my arms."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, in a private letter to Lorena Hickok, a reporter with whom she had a "personal" relationship. Read more at Lesbian Life.
"I wish I could lie down beside you tonight & take you in my arms."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, in a private letter to Lorena Hickok, a reporter with whom she had a "personal" relationship. Read more at Lesbian Life.
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She was not the only person associated with the FDR administration who was a Lesbian. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was a "Sapphist" as well.