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This is not about politics or it should not be. It is about the thousands of women I have met who are mothers, simply wives and mothers. As a group they get terrible press and it does have a painful impact. They do not complain to me, but if you ask how they feel about their portrayal in the culture, you better be prepared for an answer. Work hard at being a wife and mother and you are pictured as a selfish life-denying drudge. "Barefoot and pregnant" and in need of liberation, you are pathetic and sadly don't know it....

BOSTON (CP) - Teresa Heinz Kerry remained true to her direct style Tuesday, saying it's time women's voices are at last respected so they'll be called "smart and well-informed, just like men," instead of "opinionated." Canadian Press Photo Heinz Kerry, whose blunt comments have caused concern among some Democrats fighting to put John Kerry (news - web sites) in the White House, set tongues wagging at the party's four-day political convention after she told a journalist to "shove it." Some party officials were probably holding their breath during her prime-time slot, where she emphasized Kerry's Vietnam service and called him...

Oh, Teresa (Part CCLXVII)! Bush in (oratorical) action. Watt’s up! And more Ready for a little Teresa, the lady who would be First Lady? Okay, check her out. First, in response to Bush's gay-marriage position, she says, "It's divisive politics." Oh, sure: divisiveness. Because it's only supporters of a marriage amendment who are acting divisively, not those who would impose a radical redefinition of marriage. "You wish to thwart my staggeringly revolutionary action, therefore you are divisive." What a lovely way to argue! And here's Joe Klein, in the Quote of the Day from yesterday's Hotline (a political compilation from...

<p>KETCHUM, Idaho - She first came to Idaho 36 years ago, a young newlywed toting her 6-week-old son, a suitcase full of diapers, and a tube of Boraxo diaper rash cream.</p> <p>Her husband, John Heinz III of the Pittsburgh ketchup family, would ski the mountain slopes where he learned the sport as a child, but Teresa Heinz would stay behind at the Sun Valley Lodge, nursing her son John IV and tucking him in for naps on the floor between the twin beds.</p>