First lady Quote by Drew Pinsky

When I announced my focus on mental health as first lady of Georgia in 1971, none but five mental health advocates in the state…

— Rosalynn Carter

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or…

— Dee Dee Myers

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

— Nancy Reagan

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

— Michael Heseltine

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

— Rush Limbaugh

“she quickly hired a housekeeper and a kitchen staff for the White House and then threw herself into what mattered far more to her—civil…

— Laura Shapiro

I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies…

— William A. Rusher

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

— Kitty Kelley

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

— Mitch Horowitz

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's…

— Eleanor Roosevelt