Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Following Johnson's succession to the presidency Carpenter became the first professional newswoman to be press secretary to a first lady for Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969) for whom Liz Carpenter also served as staff director. In 1971 Liz Carpenter was one of the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus and co-chair of ERAmerica traveling the country to push for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Carpenter was born in historic Salado in southern Bell County Texas. Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (September 1 1920 – March 20 2010) was a writer feminist former reporter media advisor speechwriter political humorist and public relations expert.