First lady Quotes

You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.

— Rhonda Byrne

I don't feel like a first lady.

— Brigitte Macron

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

— Oleg Cassini

I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.

— Betty Ford

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

— Jackie Kennedy

To know the first lady is to love Michelle.

— Valerie Jarrett

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

— Kitty Kelley

“I think it's great to have a new life every 10 years or so.”

— Barbara Bush

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.

— Leo McCarey

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

— Barbara Bush

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million…

— Imelda Marcos

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

— Laura Bush

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

— Richard M. Nixon

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

— Tyra Banks

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You…

— Hillary Clinton

You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life.…

— Christine Feehan

I want to be Michelle Obama when I grow up. Not the First Lady stuff, but the cool mom, great speaker, advocate…

— Alison Pill

If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our…

— Melania Trump

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end…

— Richard Carmona

First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden…

— Conan O'Brien

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did…

— Imelda Marcos

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

“Frames 221 to 223: The motorcade is now in front of the camera lens, moving ever so slowly. The President and First…

— Francis Barel

One of the great mysteries of the Trump era has been the missed opportunities for the first lady to stamp her mark…

— Miranda Devine

We have to design policies that have meaningful impacts on the quality of life of women and families. And that's something that…

— Michelle Obama

The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one…

— Roger Ross Williams

John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz is on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week and they said that if he is elected…

— Jay Leno

Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing…

— Nora Ephron

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady…

— Rebecca Traister

The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Few would disagree that Herbert Mullin, who thought he was saving California from the great earthquake by killing people, and Ed Gein,…

— Peter Vronsky

Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in…

— Michael Jackson

“The Fifth Congress had recessed in July 1798 without declaring war against France, but in the last days before adjourning it did…

— Cokie Roberts

“For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status, and in general, I…

— David Rakoff

“What's in a #firstlady title? The rest of their #bickeringbook, and look who's reading each other in proton-order? These kittens have taken…

— Tracey Bond

It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

“was one of just 27 women out of 235 students in my class at Yale Law School. The first woman partner at…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton