Alice Hathaway Lee was only 17 years old when she met Teddy Roosevelt in 1878. The future U.S. president was a student at Harvard University. Roosevelt was a classmate of Lee’s cousin and it was at their house they met.
As soon as Roosevelt met Alice, he wrote of her constantly in his diary. He was smitten with her. He found her beautiful and charming. He was so obsessed with Alice that he wrote of her all the time. He chronicled her acts of recognition of him, her quiet smiles, her silences — every action he saw her take, as though he never wanted to forget the slightest detail.
Eight months later, Roosevelt proposed marriage, but Alice was in no hurry. She made him wait eight more months before she agreed and the wedding was later that year.
Fiscal sanity is dead because most people are irrational hypocrites
Instinctive desire to ‘do something’ almost always leads to bad policy
Love’s closest counterfeit sounds like love but acts like selfish need
Little boy for whom I was named shows what my mother hoped for
My heart longs for a future that’s more real to me than the dim past
The gifts we give children shape them and reveal what we expect of them
We live in Reverse World, where black is white and good is evil
Women, you perpetuate this by reproducing with these lewd jerks
Smallest ray of hope can make us feel a change we need is coming