"Eleanor Roosevelt, fine, precise, hand-worked like ivory. Her voice was almost attractive ... One had the impression of a lady who was finally becoming a woman, which is to say that she was just a little bitchy about it all; nice bitchy, charming, it had a touch of art to it, but it made one wonder if she were not now satisfying the last passion of them all, which was to become physically attractive, for she was better-looking than she had ever been."
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Columnists from the United StatesWomen academics from the United StatesDiplomats of the United StatesActivists from New York CityUnited States First ladies
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Norman Mailer, Superman Comes to the Supermarket. (November 1960)
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