A woman is like a tea bag. You don't know its strength until it's in hot water.

Speech to El Paso County Republicans, 30 October 1963, in the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, no. 29,482 (31 October 1963), p. 13. Sometimes attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. Misattributed to Nancy Reagan, who often repeated it

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