Marriage Quote by Sally Quinn

It’s the casualness that lands like a gauntlet: “It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.” Sally Quinn isn’t merely describing a beat-hopping workweek; she’s flexing a particular kind of Washington-media power, where curiosity doubles as authority. The line turns journalism into a lifestyle accessory - not in the pejorative sense of frivolity, but in the sense that “Style” and “religion” are treated as adjacent rooms in the same social house. In Quinn’s world, politics is never just policy; it’s marriage dynamics, manners, faith, and the performance of private life in public.

The intent is pragmatic and a little disarming: she’s explaining her range, maybe deflecting the accusation that she’s not a “serious” reporter. But the subtext is sharper. Writing “advice to Laura Bush” assumes access and cultural fluency, the confidence to frame a First Lady’s role as spousal support - a very early-2000s, post-Clinton-scandal, “restoring normalcy” vibe. Sliding from that to “religion” also signals how elite media often covers belief: not as theology, but as a social force shaping reputations and alliances. Faith becomes another lens for reading power.

Context matters: Quinn came up in a Washington where the boundary between chronicler and participant was porous. Her voice here is less impartial observer than tastemaker with a press pass. The quote works because it refuses to pretend otherwise. It’s an unvarnished admission that news judgment is, inevitably, personal judgment - and that what gets elevated to “interesting” often tracks the preoccupations of the capital’s most influential rooms.