From: dougm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: M. Quayle says she's misunderstood
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:16:27 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

From the Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence, KS) for Sunday, Sept. 13, 1992.

Mrs. Quayle claims remarks distorted

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Marilyn Quayle complained Friday that her remarks at the
Republican convention on women and family values have ben distorted, echoing
objections Hillary Clinton has made about GOP attacks.

        "The great hazard of stating one's views publicly, in one's own
words, is that they will be nisunderstood or, for political reasons,
deliberately misconstrued," the vice president's wife wrote in an opinion
piece published in The New York Times.

        Mrs. Quayle said that since her convention speech last month she had
endured "an experience similar to looking in a fun-house mirror, watching my
words come back at me in grotesque, often unrecongnizable forms."

        That's a lot like what Mrs. Clinton, a lawyer as well as the wife of
the Democratic presidential nominee, has been saying about Republican
attacks on her -- their charge, for example, that she thinks children should
be able to sue parents for asking them to take out the garbage.

        Mrs. Quayle's convention speech contrasted biting rhetoric about
liberal members of her baby-boom generation with praise for the traditional
values of women who stay at home to raise their kids.

        Amid the family-values drumbeat of the convention, dominated by 
evangelicals and other social conservatives, the speech was widely 
interpreted as a put-down of professional women -- particularly Mrs. Clinton.

        Mrs. Quayle is also a lawyer but she gave up her law career to
raise her three children.  She defended her choice aggressively at the 
convention and said it did not represent "caving in."

        "The accusation that astonished me most is that I implied that women 
who work are somehow less admirable than women who stay home with their 
children," she wrote Friday.  "This is nonsense.  I never said that."

        Mrs Quayle said one part of her speech had been "subject to 
particularly wild and hostile misinterpretation" -- her contention that 
liberals are angry because most women "do not wish to be liberated from 
their essential natures as women."

        She said feminist Betty Friedan and psychologist Carol Gilligan have
made the case that women and men are different.  What she meant to say in
Houston, she said, was that "we don't have to reject our essential natures
as women to prosper in what was once the domain of men."

        Mrs. Quayle, no stay-at-home mom herself, is a key adviser to her 
husband and an activist for a number of causes.

        Her choices at different points in her life, she said Friday, "were 
right for me.  I do not hold them up as right for every woman.  It never 
crossed my mind to do so."  Her conclusion: "Perhaps this is all too 
delicate to discuss in a political year."

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