Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

She also serves as a director of Reader's Digest Association Inc. In 2000 Lynne Cheney was mentioned as a possible conservative female pick for Republican Vice Presidential nominee on the George W. She furthered her education with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a PhD in 19th century British literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (her dissertation was entitled "Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry").

She is a novelist conservative scholar and former talk-show host. Vice President Dick Cheney and served as the Second Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009.