We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off. — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers. — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Few First Ladies—and the name wasn’t yet commonly used—have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some… — Margaret Truman Daniel Copy Share Image
No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses… — Margaret Truman Daniel Copy Share Image
Historically, the most favorably viewed figure in any administration is the first lady, regardless of her husband's popularity. That is largely because… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Previous first ladies seemed to feel the need to wear a sort of uniform, whereas Michelle Obama likes fashion and is very… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You might think lunchtime at Willing would be different from other high schools. That everyone would be welcome at any table, united… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I specifically did not read other First Ladies' books, because I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role.… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“If the club creates a natural bond among its members, something of that sympathy extends to their families as well. The first… — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
“I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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