If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Smith (1905–2000) a dressmaker and Wilburn Edgar Smith (1896–1940) an automobile mechanic and farmer. Her father died of leukemia when Rosalynn Carter was 13 and Rosalynn Carter helped her mother to raise her younger siblings as well as to assist in the dressmaking business in order to meet the family's financial obligations. First Lady of the United States

In January 1977 Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter walked hand-in-hand down Pennsylvania Avenue during his presidential inauguration parade.

As First Lady and after Rosalynn Carter has been a leading advocate for numerous causes perhaps most prominently for mental health research. Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith; August 18 1927) is the wife of the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.