If you have anything less, it’s not a marriage, it’s servitude.
I go to his aid. He comes to mine.
I’m a woman who loves her husband, and I make no apologies for looking out for his personal and political welfare. We have a genuine, sharing marriage. I go to his aid. He comes to mine. I have opinions. He has opinions. We don’t always agree. But neither marriage not politics denies a spouse the right to hold an opinion or the right to express it. And if you have anything less, it’s not a marriage, it’s servitude.
by Nancy Reagan
(born July 6, 1921)
as quoted in Leading Ladies of the White House
written by Molly Meijer Wertheimer
