motherhenna:“Alice Roosevelt was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great press
motherhenna:“Alice Roosevelt was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.Once, a White House visitor commented on Alice’s frequent interruptions to the Oval Office, often because of her political advice. The exhausted president replied, after his daughter’s third interruption, ‘I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.’ ”*Bad Girls by MIA plays in the distance* -- source link
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