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88ec923 While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States. Everything that I have done and seen has convinced me that America remains the "indispensable nation." Hillary Rodham Clinton
e808389 Donald Trump didn't invent sexism, and its impact on our politics goes far beyond this one election. It's like a planet that astronomers haven't precisely located yet but know exists because they can see its impact on other planets' orbits and gravities. Sexism exerts its pull on our politics and our society every day, in ways both subtle and crystal clear. Hillary Rodham Clinton
cbc7aee Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. Hillary Rodham Clinton
0eb40dd It hurts to be torn apart. Hillary Rodham Clinton
99f5581 I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery novels and can plow through one in a single sitting. Some of my recent favorites are by Louise Penny, Jacqueline Winspear, Donna Leon, and Charles Todd. I finished reading Elena Ferrante's four Neapolitan novels and relished the story they tell about friendship among women. Our shelves are weighed down with volumes about h.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
d6f9805 To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. --Flannery O'Connor Hillary Rodham Clinton
413c664 Bill was watching Trump's speech on television. He couldn't believe it. Neither could I. Eventually everyone left, and it was just us. I hadn't cried yet, wasn't sure if I would. But I felt deeply and thoroughly exhausted, like I hadn't slept in ten years. We lay down on the bed and stared at the ceiling. Bill took my hand, and we just lay there. Hillary Rodham Clinton
a4c630a Politics was reduced to its most tribal , "us" versus "them," and "them" grew into a big list: blacks, Latinos, immigrants , liberals , city dwellers, you name it." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
ca9aa03 I wish so badly we were a country where a candidate who said, "My story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women's liberation" would be cheered, not jeered. But that's not who we are. Not yet." Hillary Rodham Clinton
4bba2ef And it's the only way I see forward for myself. I can carry around my bitterness forever, or I can open my heart once more to love and kindness. That's the path I choose. Hillary Rodham Clinton
f84bc02 Just keep going. No feeling is final. --Rainer Maria Rilke Hillary Rodham Clinton
781e6be standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured. Hillary Rodham Clinton
a45f48d Philippe took his character study very seriously, including the physicality. Trump looms and lurks on a debate stage, so Philippe did too, always hanging out on the edge of my peripheral vision. He wore a suit like Trump's (a little baggy), a tie like Trump's (way too long), and actual Trump-brand cuff links and a Trump-brand watch he found on eBay. He wore three-and-a-half-inch shoe heighteners, flailed his arms like Trump, shrugged and mu.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
9e4e895 I'm not jealous of my male colleagues often, but I am when it comes to how they can just shower, shave, put on a suit, and be ready to go. The few times I've gone out in public without makeup, it's made the news. So I sigh and keep getting back in that chair, and dream of a future in which women in the public eye don't need to wear makeup if they don't want to and no one cares either way. politics women Hillary Rodham Clinton
806d2fe It was reinforced by my family's Methodist faith, which taught us, "Do all the good you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." Hillary Rodham Clinton
5d5be72 Don't let the bastards get you down. Stay true to yourself and your values. Most of all, keep going. progress true-self values Hillary Rodham Clinton
ab932d0 I chose option A. I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off. I did, however, grip the microphone extra hard. I wonder, though, whether I should have chosen option B. It certainly would have been better TV. Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm--biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world. .. Hillary Rodham Clinton
73f0b75 Given my inability to explain this mess, I decided to let other voices tell the story this time. Hillary Rodham Clinton
8bb1641 To this day, I can't hear "Fight Song," "Roar," or "Rise Up" without getting emotional." Hillary Rodham Clinton
b36cf51 Republicans persuaded whites in places like West Virginia to vote against their economic interests by appealing to them on cultural issues-- in other words, "gays, guns, and God." Hillary Rodham Clinton
df956b3 One thing that has never been a hard choice for me is serving our country. It has been the greatest honor of my life. Hillary Rodham Clinton
cdfa0b2 Strength is what it's all about. Trump doesn't think in terms of morality or human rights, he thinks only in terms of power and dominance. Hillary Rodham Clinton
5e80589 As much as I might have wanted to, I could never change my vote on Iraq. But I could try to help us learn the right lessons from that war and apply them to Afghanistan and other challenges where we had fundamental security interests. I was determined to do exactly that when facing future hard choices, with more experience, wisdom, skepticism, and humility. Hillary Rodham Clinton
c274355 Will we ever have a woman President? We will. I hope I'll be around to vote for her--assuming I agree with her agenda. She'll have to earn my vote based on her qualifications and ideas, just like anyone else. When that day comes, I believe that my two presidential campaigns will have helped pave the way for her. We did not win, but we made the sight of a woman nominee more familiar. We brought the possibility of a woman president closer. We.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
7cc56f0 The truth is, everyone's flawed. That's the nature of human beings. But our mistakes alone shouldn't define us. We should be judged by the totality of our work and life. Hillary Rodham Clinton
0b76c7e So I've never had much respect for activists who are willing to sit out elections, waste their votes, or tear down well-meaning allies rather than engage constructively. Making the perfect the enemy of the good is shortsighted and counterproductive. And when someone on the left starts talking about how there's no difference between the two parties or that electing a right-wing Republican might somehow hasten "the revolution," it's just unfa.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
820c5fc They knew that the worse Washington looked, the more voters would reject the idea that government could ever be an effective force for progress. They could stop most good things from happening and then be rewarded because nothing good was happening. When something good did happen, such as expanding health care, they would focus on tearing it down, rather than making it better. With many of their voters getting their news from partisan sourc.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
c490b83 Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. Easier said than done. Hillary Rodham Clinton
29a5cc1 Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time. Hillary Rodham Clinton
59d5cfc When I got to know Mandela better, he explained that as a young man he had a quick temper. In prison he learned to control his emotions in order to survive. His years in jail had given him the time and motivation to look deeply into his own heart and to deal with the pain he found. He reminded me that gratitude and forgiveness, which often result from pain and suffering, require tremendous discipline. The day his imprisonment ended, he told.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
6120f03 I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where conditions are worst, but in places where expectations are most unmet. So if you've been raised to believe your life will unfold a certain way--say, with a steady union job that doesn't require a college degree but does provide a middle-class income, with traditional gender roles intact and everyone speaking English--.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
1794b20 When people feel left out, left behind, and left without options, the deep void will be filled by anger and resentment or depression and despair about those who supposedly took away their livelihood or cut in line. Trump brilliantly tapped into all these feelings. Hillary Rodham Clinton
e414bd2 Bhutto acknowledged the difficulties faced by women who were breaking with tradition and taking leading roles in public life. She deftly managed to refer both to the challenges I had encountered during my White House tenure and to her own situation. "Women who take on tough issues and stake out new territory are often on the receiving end of ignorance," she concluded. In a private meeting with the Prime Minister, we talked about her upcomin.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
3b2530b When you are in a common boat, cross the river peacefully together. Hillary Rodham Clinton
c456009 we are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be. Hillary Rodham Clinton
9bac1a4 When I said, "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," I was talking about well-documented reality. ... But too many of Trump's core supporters do hold views that I find--there's no other word for it--deplorable." Hillary Rodham Clinton
51d6a81 women are seen favorably when they advocate for others, but unfavorably when they advocate for themselves. Hillary Rodham Clinton
734b9e7 I have a weakness for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers and was delighted to find out that 55 goldfish were only 150 calories - not bad! One time, Liz brought something I hadn't tried before: Flavor Blasted Goldfish. We passed around the bag and discussed whether it was better than the original. Some of my staff thought yes, which was incorrect. Hillary Rodham Clinton
c6c3dc8 when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. Hillary Rodham Clinton
05c9529 Well-behaved women seldom make history. --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Hillary Rodham Clinton
6557287 The journalist Rebecca Traister observed once that there was "an Indiana Jones-style, 'It had to be snakes' inevitability" about me facing Trump. "Of course Hillary Clinton is going to have to run against a man who seems both to embody and have attracted the support of everything male, white, and angry about the ascension of women and black people in America," she wrote. I was up for the challenge. And I might add: Of course I had to face n.. Hillary Rodham Clinton
03677f2 One beautiful summer evening, Jimmy and Jane Buffett hosted a concert for us at their home in the Hamptons on Long Island. I was the first presidential candidate Jimmy ever endorsed, and he wanted to do something special for me. Hillary Rodham Clinton