Schroeder said she could never understand the peculiar schizophrenia in political minds when it comes to mothers: “If you’re poor and a single mom, you damn well better get out there and work and don’t expect us to help you, thank you very much. But if you’re middle class and you can maybe afford to be home, then you should be guilty as hell if you’re gone and should be running around trying to do fourteen thousand things to make up for it.”