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Show edeed Tuc ia a to-be at Indiana University Law School to any negative imageof herself, how- where she wasa pep girl and majored it easier. And, in 1972, to find a perin the 1970s. After graduation, they ever, she maintained:“‘T think that comes in political science butstill didn’t find son who would admitto being a conopenedtheir own lawfirm, Quayle & more from society’s perception that the rightrelationship. “I actually came servative and who had strongfaith Quayle, and she worked as an attorney women are supposed to be demure”—a to the determination that I probably and would accept a wife as an equal— for three years before he was elected to situation, shesaid, that confronts “wom- would never get married,” she said. I figured I wouldn’t find anybody.” Congress in 1976. Then they moved en who have accomplished something “There were certain criteria I wanted in Then, along came Dan Quayle. to Washington, D.C., where they stayed and whoare not shrinking violets.” They metat a golf outing, and he a husband. Marriageis very difficult, until the end of the Bush Presidency. “I speak my mind, and I will argue and youreally have to workat it. You asked if she would like to go out—not “Myfriends would saythat I like a point,” Mrs. Quayle said. “I was can makeit easy for yourself, or you with him butwith a friend. Shortly afanything thatstretches the edge ofthe brought up and firmlybelieve that one can makeit hard. You can either find terward, however, he asked her for a envelope little bit,” Mrs. Quayle told must have compassionforall people. someone whoshares yourbasic back- date himself. She was dating someone me, and she certainly was a veryvisi- You have to love everyone. But you ground, your philosophyoflife, your else at the time, but the chemistry was ble Vice President’s wife. don’t have to love what they do. And faith, your politics—whichwill make right. Just 10 weeks afterward, she and = Quayle got married. She was known to zip around the Vice Presidential grounds on in-line Below, left: She found him to be bright, able and Marilyn, roller skates, she managed to get herself age 3. Right: funny. “We enjoyed each other,” she a ride in the cockpit of an F-15 fighter said. They have been married 21 years. Corinne, She described her marriageas a true during a visit to a U.S. military base, Tucker, Dan, ard = partnership. They see eye-to-eye on most | and she surprised more than a fewpeo- Marilyn Benjamin things, she said, but she credits the sucple by traipsingthrough the mud in Quayle (i-r) cessoftheir unionto a rule they follow Bangladesh after a killer typhoonstruck. join in a run for breast when they disagree: “Whoeverfeels Mrs. Quayle said her independent cancer more strongly about an issue wins.” impulse came from having been the research in While she declined to comment on fourth and smallest of six children. 1992. Below: her husband’s plans, she did mention his “There was only a seven-year age span Dan Quayle is sworn in new book, Standing Firm, and remarked between the oldest and youngest, so I as Vice that he spoke with President Bush by had to learn to be pero just to President. telephone “every couple of weeks.” survive,” she said. + m7 Marilyn Quayle hopes to have a new There have: book herself this fall—apolitical thriller been two driving co-written, as was Embracethe Serpent, forcesin Marilyn = ae P= her first, with her sister, Nancy Northcott. | Tucker Quayle’s ad ee As for other plans, Mrs. Quayle said,“I | life: her mother, have noclue. If you told me 20 years Mary Tucker, a ago what my future held for me, I physician who z= wouldn't have believed there’s the difference.” | died at 56, nearly = you.” Her immediate a Her father, Warren, two decadesago, = goals, she said, are simply now81, was a doctor who from breast cantreated many immigrants = to get settled in her new| cer; and herpai life and getthe children ga who could notafford to ternal grandfather, through high school and mee pay. “Welearned early on James Tucker, a college. The Quayles are | that there’s great joy in lawyerand judge. the parents of Tucker, 19, | helpingothers,” she said. “Everybody whoattends Lehigh; Ben- | § Her parents’ dreamsofretold me! was just jamin, 17; and Corinne,15. tirement collapsed when like my mother,” Does she have politiMrs. Quayle said, “so I couldn’t be a cancer took her mother. “So, they nevcal ambitions of her own? er got to do what they both wanted to doctor then. I absolutely could notlive In a word, she said, “No.” do, and I think that’s whyI am really up to that expectation.” All in all, their political so adamant with people to do everyWhy did she choose law? tribulations may have “I have fond memories of going to thing they can for early detection of visit Grandpa at the law firm and sitting cancers,” said Mrs. Quayle, who has Onherbeliefs: “ I learned made the Quayles stronger. “Anyone who says [myhusband] has not been on his lap. He’d be smokingan oldsto- been active in helpingto focus attention early on that there’s great tested—which was oneof their argu| gie and had a big stuffed owl in the on breast cancer and early detection. ments against him—certainly can’t say Looking back at her childhood, joy in helping others... corner. He would tell storyafter story. that now,” Mrs. Quayle declared. He had been a circuit court judge, and Marilyn Quayle described herself as “a “We are very fortunate to have a very you could tell in his small town how terrible tomboy” who yearned to parstrong faith and a verystrong relarevered he was. He died when I was ticipate in organized sports. “I envy my firmly believe that one tionship and wonderful friends,” she daughter now,” she said, “because. . .all 11...[but] from the time anybody asked must have compassion added. “There are more people across these wonderful team sports [are now me what I wanted to be when I grew the country who cameout of their way available] in high schooland college.” up, I always said ‘a lawyer.’ I wanted for all people. You to support Danas he traveled places— | As a teenager, she had a crush on to be just like Grandpa.” that made a huge difference. There was Some have compared Marilyn Hugh O'Brian, who portrayed Wyatt have to love everyone. a real rallying around him. We still have Quayle to another lawyerandpolitical Earp on TV,but she had no serious boy- But you don’t have to the feeling that the truth will stand bewife—Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. friend. “I really didn’t date that much,” hind us as long as we don’t deviate and Clinton, at times, has been criticized she said. “There were fleeting little ro- love what they do. And stand true to our principles. Then we as being “cold” and “hard.” “I don’t mances, but they were never serious.” there’s the difference.” will win in the end.” ik She attended Purdue University, talk about her,” Mrs. Quayle said. As I was brought up and PARADE MAGAZINE - JUNE 5, 1994 - PAGE 5 |