Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world. - Pat Nixon

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jacqueline Kennedy

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. - Lady Bird Johnson

In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. - Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. - Mae West

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. - Lydia M. Child