Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

From 1945 to 1972 Lewis was married to New York Times correspondent editor and publishing executive Sydney Gruson. In 1972 the New York Times appointed her foreign and diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times. )
She died of cancer in 2002.