4 Quotes by Myra MacPherson

Marriage is the grave of love.

When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read “Housewife” or “Mother” runs for Congress. When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, “Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, “Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.