“I wanted to go into dramatics and become an actress, but my mother wouldn't let me.”

— Martha Beall Mitchell

[Fischer, Dean, Martha Mitchell's View From The Top, TIME, November 30, 1970, 96, 22, 43, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904539,00.html, 12 September 2019]

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Wife of American politician 1918–1976

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