Marietta Tree

Overview

Marietta Peabody Tree born Lawrence, MA April 17, 1917 (d. 1991). American diplomat appointed by JFK; US representative to UN Human Rights Commission and Trusteeship Council, 1961; mother of Vietnam author Frances Fitzgerald.

Quotations

"What role should women play in this society? What can we do to help solve great questions of the day—the great unanswered questions. . . of hunger midst plenty,—sickness and disease midst the great breakthrough of modern medicine,—illiteracy in the age of communication and the most important question of all, 'Shall we live in peace?'" (quotations from "Women at Penn"; photo archives.upenn.edu)