New Delhi, May 21 -- Today, the Quote of the Day is by Eleanor Roosevelt: "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in New York City in 1884, became one of the most influential public women of the 20th century.

Orphaned young, she later married Franklin D. Roosevelt and transformed the role of First Lady by becoming a visible political voice, journalist, reformer, diplomat and human-rights advocate.

After Franklin Roosevelt's death, she served as a US delegate to the United Nations and chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights, helping shape the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Britannica describes her as, in her time, "one of the world's most widely admired and powerful wome...