A Good Girl, a Great Woman: What do women want? Perhaps it's what Katharine Graham embodied for us all.(The Last Word)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 30-JUL-01

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She seemed to have everything the times demanded, this woman of a certain age toying with her mineral water across a restaurant table. A partnership in a large law firm. An enduring marriage to her college beau. Grown children with promising careers. An apartment in the city, a house in the country, a sense of humor, a sharp mind. In the fashion of women trading recipes, she was asked how she did it, and she replied by way of food. "It was different for women of my generation," she said. "We did it like a cake, layer by layer."

Those younger women to whom life has become more like a fruitcake, way too much going on in one big block, have learned to covertly admire the fortitude of women like that one, women who lived one sort of life under the old rules and then managed to re-create themselves and succeed under the new ones. There are examples...

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