History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. - B. C. Forbes
Hillary was raised in a middle-class family in Park Ridge, Illinois. She became one of America's foremost advocates for children and families; an attorney twice voted one of the most influential in America; a First Lady of Arkansas who helped transform the schools; a bestselling author; a First Lady for America who helped transform that role, becoming a champion for health care and families at home and a champion of women's rights and human rights around the world. In 2008, she became the first female to have her name in nomination for the US Presidency.
As the Senator representing New York after 9/11, Hillary has fought to strengthen the approach to homeland security and to improve communications and intelligence operations. As the first New Yorker ever named to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hillary has been a tough critic of the administration's bungling of Iraq and a fierce advocate for proper equipment, health benefits, and treatment for military families.
Hillary went to Wellesley College, where she was chosen by her classmates to be the first-ever student commencement speaker. Next came Yale Law School, where Hillary focused on questions about how the law affected children and began her decades of work as an advocate for children and families. Following graduation, she became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund. After serving as only one of two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon, Hillary chose not to pursue offers from major law firms. Instead she followed her heart and a man named Bill Clinton to Arkansas. They married in 1975 and their daughter Chelsea was born in 1980.
She led the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which played a pioneering role in raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay. Hillary was twice named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
In the White House, Hillary led efforts to make adoption easier, to expand early learning and child care, to increase funding for breast cancer research, and to help veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome who had too often been ignored in the past. She helped launch a national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which moved children from foster care to adoption more quickly. Thanks in part to her efforts, the number of children who have moved out of foster care into adoption has increased dramatically.
In 2000, Hillary was elected to the United States Senate from New York. As Senator, Hillary has continued her advocacy for children and families and has been a national leader on homeland security and national security issues.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero. And she continues to work for resources that enable New York to grow, to improve homeland security for New York and other communities, and to protect all Americans from future attacks.
Hillary is strongly committed to making sure that every American has the right to vote in fair, accessible, and credible elections. She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.
In 2006, New Yorkers reelected Hillary to the Senate with 67 percent of the vote.
In 2008, the nomination to run as a Presidential candidae in the Democratic Party was stolen from her by the boys club with its leader Nancy Pelosi who is a disgrace to honest, hard working women and men everywhere.
Hillary was raised in a middle-class family in Park Ridge, Illinois. She became one of America's foremost advocates for children and families; an attorney twice voted one of the most influential in America; a First Lady of Arkansas who helped transform the schools; a bestselling author; a First Lady for America who helped transform that role, becoming a champion for health care and families at home and a champion of women's rights and human rights around the world. In 2008, she became the first female to have her name in nomination for the US Presidency.
As the Senator representing New York after 9/11, Hillary has fought to strengthen the approach to homeland security and to improve communications and intelligence operations. As the first New Yorker ever named to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hillary has been a tough critic of the administration's bungling of Iraq and a fierce advocate for proper equipment, health benefits, and treatment for military families.
Hillary went to Wellesley College, where she was chosen by her classmates to be the first-ever student commencement speaker. Next came Yale Law School, where Hillary focused on questions about how the law affected children and began her decades of work as an advocate for children and families. Following graduation, she became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund. After serving as only one of two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon, Hillary chose not to pursue offers from major law firms. Instead she followed her heart and a man named Bill Clinton to Arkansas. They married in 1975 and their daughter Chelsea was born in 1980.
She led the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which played a pioneering role in raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay. Hillary was twice named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
In the White House, Hillary led efforts to make adoption easier, to expand early learning and child care, to increase funding for breast cancer research, and to help veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome who had too often been ignored in the past. She helped launch a national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which moved children from foster care to adoption more quickly. Thanks in part to her efforts, the number of children who have moved out of foster care into adoption has increased dramatically.
In 2000, Hillary was elected to the United States Senate from New York. As Senator, Hillary has continued her advocacy for children and families and has been a national leader on homeland security and national security issues.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero. And she continues to work for resources that enable New York to grow, to improve homeland security for New York and other communities, and to protect all Americans from future attacks.
Hillary is strongly committed to making sure that every American has the right to vote in fair, accessible, and credible elections. She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.
In 2006, New Yorkers reelected Hillary to the Senate with 67 percent of the vote.
In 2008, the nomination to run as a Presidential candidae in the Democratic Party was stolen from her by the boys club with its leader Nancy Pelosi who is a disgrace to honest, hard working women and men everywhere.
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If you hear the dogs, keep going.
If you see the torches in the woods, keep going.
If they’re shouting after you, keep going.
Don’t ever stop. Keep going.
If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
Even in the darkest of moments, ordinary Americans have found the faith to keep going.
Thank you for this new website !
You are right : women have still a long way to go, in the USA and all over the world...
What happened to Hillary Clinton in 2008, and to Ségolène Royal in France one year before proves that the battle is not over yet !
Thank you for providing a place where a great woman like Hillary can be given the praise she deserves. Unfortunately, other blogs have members who are starting to turn on her. Hillary has done so much for women in her lifetime and what she endured during the primaries is beyond words. Because of her strength she did advance the women's cause. There is no way Gov. Palin would have been chosen if it had not been for Hillary. So sad the woman who has done so much for women is not the one getting all of the praise. Hillary endured the sexism all on her own.
Hillary will never stop working for women's rights no matter how many stab her in the back.
My fervent hope is that I will live long enough to see Hillary as our president.
"This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits' end, but she has always risen, always risen, don't forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends." -
Maya Angelou
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