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