"Clare Boothe Luce addressing a dinner in ER's honor at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on May 21, 1950. She described ER as 'the best loved women in the world' and concluded '...No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable.' [Bettmann Archive]."

From: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt. Ed. Allida M. Black. Carlson Publishing, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, 1995.