Barbara Bush has died.

“I recently read your criticism of my family. I was deeply hurt,” said Simpson. “Heaven knows we’re far from perfect and, if truth be known, maybe just a wee bit short of normal, but as Dr. Seuss says, ‘a person is a person’.”

She goes on to say that she teaches her kids to “give somebody the benefit of the doubt and not talk badly about them” and how it was difficult to teach them that when the First Lady calls her family dumb.

“I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common,” she continues. “Each of us living our lives to serve an exceptional man. I hope there is some way out of this controversy. I thought,, perhaps, it would be a good start to just speak my mind.”