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In 1992, future First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said during a 60 Minutes interview either “ I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette ”.

or " I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette ".

( The end of this quotation has also appeared as " some little woman, standing by my man and baking cookies, like Tammy Wynette.

") However, the reference to cookie baking more likely comes from an unrelated remark by Hillary Clinton: " I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

" Either way, the remark set off a firestorm of controversy.

Wynette wrote to Clinton saying, " With all that is in me, I resent your caustic remark.

I believe you have offended every true country-music fan and every person who has made it on their own with no one to take them to the White House.

" She soon received an apology from Mrs. Clinton.

( Wynette was nonetheless a Clinton supporter and later performed at a Clinton fundraiser.