Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Eleanor Rosalynn Carteris the wife of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She has for decades been a leading advocate for numerous causes, perhaps most prominently for mental health research. She was politically active during her White House years, sitting in on Cabinet and policy meetings as well as serving as her husband's closest adviser. She also served as an...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth18 August 1927
CityPlains, GA
CountryUnited States of America
Once you get involved the needs are so great.
There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to the future. Where could our lives possibly be as meaningful as they might have been in the White House?
Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.
My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?
There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.
San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.