True or False - Hillary Clinton said it at Wellesley in 1969?
True or False - Hillary Clinton said it at Wellesley in 1969?
Was she really this brilliant at 18?
Was she really this brilliant at 18?
“And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible… The complexities are not lost in our analyses, but perhaps they're just put into what we consider a more human and eventually a more progressive perspective.”
“What we did is often difficult for some people to understand. They ask us quite often: ‘Why, if you're dissatisfied, do you stay in a place?’ Well, if you didn't care a lot about it you wouldn't stay.”
“So we have made progress. We have achieved some of the things that we initially saw as lacking in that gap between expectation and reality... We questioned what responsibility we should have both for our lives as individuals and for our lives as members of a collective group.”
“The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences.”
"I would like to talk about reality sometime, authentic reality, inauthentic reality, and what we have to accept of what we see—but our perception of it is that it hovers often between the possibility of disaster and the potentiality for imaginatively responding to men's needs."
“We are, all of us, exploring a world that none of us even understands and attempting to create within that uncertainty.”
“I was talking to a woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now.”
“We found, as all of us have found, that there was a gap between expectation and realities. But it wasn't a discouraging gap and it didn't turn us into cynical, bitter old women at the age of 18. It just inspired us to do something about that gap.”