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Lou Henry Hoover

  • “... I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.”

    • Lou Henry Hoover,
    • letter (1942), in William O. Foss, ed., First Ladies Quotations Book ()

  • “... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.”

    • Lou Henry Hoover,
    • at Girl Scouts of America convention, 1930, in William O. Foss, ed., First Ladies Quotations Book ()

Lou Henry Hoover, U.S. first lady

(1874 - 1944)