Falling in love with a United States Senator is a splendid ordeal. One is nestled snugly into the bosom of power but also placed s...quarely in the hazardous path of exposure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I concluded that I was skilled, however poorly, at only one thing: marriage. And so I set about the business of selling myself and... two children to some unsuspecting man who might think me a desirable second-hand mate, a man of good means and disposition willing to support another man's children in some semblance of the style to which they were accustomed. My heart was not in the chase, but I was tired and there was no alternative. I could not afford freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... by and large, wife-changing and high office are not compatible. This inequity accounts for the many dull women in Washington a...nd is the cause of much smug complacency on the distaff side of political marriages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finishing schools in the fifties were a good place to store girls for a few years before marrying them off, a satisfactory rest st...op between college weekends spent husband hunting. It was a haven for those of us adept at styling each other's hair, playing canasta, and chain smoking Pall Mall extra-long cigarettes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Washington will ever be a city for extracurricular romance and undercover trysts, partly because of the high moral standards deman...ded of the politician by his constituency, and also because it is a town where women are more easily tolerated if they dabble with politicians rather than politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
President Kennedy had a wholesome, widely discussed, and largely deserved reputation for his interest in women.... But no Presiden...t, however young and energetic, could possibly have gotten around to all the ladies in Washington, New York, and Hollywood who made claim to his affections after he died.... Such was the force of Jack Kennedy and the manner of his death that anyone associated with him, even the pretenders, assumed added glamour and interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While waiting to get married, several forms of employment were acceptable. Teaching kindergarten was for those girls who stayed in... school four years. The rest were secretaries, typists, file clerks, or receptionists in insurance firms or banks, preferably those owned or run by the family, but respectable enough if the boss was an upstanding Christian member of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »