Melania to release new book "Becoming an American" to compete against Michelle Obama

"For many women, including myself, "American wife" can feel like a loaded word. It carries a history. If you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s as I did, American wives seemed to be a genus of white women who lived inside television sitcoms - cheery, coiffed, corseted. They stayed at home, fussed over the children, and had dinner ready on the stove. They sometimes got into the sherry or flirted with the real-estate mogul, but the excitement seemed to end there.

The irony, or course, was that I married the real-estate mogul."

“…Donald makes this comparison with a touch of envy, because his own childhood was so different, but also as a way to push back on the entrenched stereotype that African Americans primarily live in broken homes, that our families are somehow incapable of living out the same stable, middle-class dream as our white neighbors.”