Anne Michaud Quotes

By all appearances, Hillary made a deal with herself over Bill's philandering. She's a private person who hates campaigning, so her marriage to a charismatic "people person" in Bill created a dynamic partnership.

Eleanor Roosevelt's determination to rise above her personal pain gave the world one of its great leaders.

The five Roosevelt children had 17 marriages among them. They struggled to find security in love.

Even some of Bill and Hillary's harshest political critics admire their success as parents.

Perhaps this sort of marriage, at the top echelons of Washington and international society, was made from different rules. Fidelity, honesty – perhaps these were quaint ideas better suited to less ambitious people. When one had the heights of the free world practically in one's grasp, maybe the bargain at the altar became more pragmatic.

The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went.

As an emotional caretaker of her family, Jackie Kennedy was extraordinary. She defied the instructions of White House social advisers to make time for raising her children in as normal a way as possible. "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." – Jackie Kennedy

In the 1960s, Valerie (Hobson) Profumo became the first show-business mother to talk publicly about Down's syndrome. She was instrumental in founding Three Roses, England's first charity to support families with Down's children.

We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be," Elizabeth Edwards wrote of her marriage to U.S. Sen. John Edwards. When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading became "the glue" that kept them together.