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date: 15 May 2025

Nancy Reagan 1921–2016
American actress 

  1. A woman is like a teabag—only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
    in Observer 29 March 1981
  2. If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpit…more refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.
    in New York Times 10 March 1988; see Roosevelt