As a homemaker, she was quite a journalist

Re “For ‘Gallant Lady,’ an Elite Farewell,” July 24: Katharine Graham was eulogized as a woman who transformed herself from a “shy homemaker” to a powerful publisher of the Washington Post.

I don’t understand. I am reading her autobiography, wherein she is quoted that when the maid had her night off, for Graham “to make a hamburger or scrambled eggs were almost beyond [my]

competence.” She also writes in the book that because of being born into a life of extreme privilege, she did not know how to launder her yellow sweater and also says in the book that she

“never in my life pressed a dress.” Is this describing a homemaker or is this journalism? Appolonia Eisel _ Huntington Beach_ MORE TO READ