[3] After completing high school, Boggs attended Birmingham–Southern College, where she studied English[4] and was a reporter for the student newspaper.

[6] Over time, Boggs realized that marriage and life in politics were incompatible, given her independent spirit in what was still very much a patriarchal society.

Boggs divorced Figueres in 1954, and she took their children to New York City, where she worked for Costa Rica's delegation to the United Nations while pursuing her lifelong passion of writing.

[6] Her return to Alabama in 1969 came with a second marriage to Dr. Hugh MacGuire and her co-founding of River Region Living, the city magazine that she would later sell, but for which she still wrote, up to the time of her death.

[7] Her 1992 memoir of her years in Costa Rica, Married to a Legend: My Life with Don Pepe, is the subject of the documentary First Lady of the Revolution.