Substantial Woman of the week - Hillary Clinton

Who She is

Hillary Clinton is the presidential candidate

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of the Democratic Party in the United States in the 2016 Presidential  Election. Also, former First Lady of the U.S, and the State of  Arkansas, Senator, Secretary of State, Lawyer and activist.

Her Life

 She was born on the 26 of October, 1947 to Hugh Ellsworth Rodman and Dorothy Emma Howell in Chicago, Illinois and attended Main East High School, where
she participated in student council and the school newspaper and  graduated amongst the top five percent of her class in 1965.

Also In 1965, Hilary enrolled in Wellesley College where she majored in Political Science.
As a freshman in college, she served as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans and supported the elections of Mayor John Lindsay of New York, and Senator Edward Brooke from Massachusetts, but later on, she  stepped down from her position as her views regarding the American Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war changed.

In her junior year, she became a supporter of anti war and following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, she organized a two day student strike.
In college, most of her fellow students, often thought that Hillary might become the first female president of the United States.

After college, she enrolled in Yale Law school, where she meet and started dating her classmate Bill Clinton, who she later married on October 11, 1975.
She gave birth to daughter Chelsea in 1980.

She became first lady  of the United States in 1992 till 2000 when Bill was President and led the fight to reform the American health care system.
In 1995, Hilary led the US delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China and gave a speech that inspired women around the world.
In  the year 2000, she was elected  a US Senator and in 2008, she ran for President but lost in the primaries to then Senator Barack Obama.
She later became the Secretary of State in the first four years of Obama's administration.

Quotes of Hillary Clinton

1. The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life, is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

2. What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

3. I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

4. Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

5. Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.


Life Lessons from Hillary Clinton

1. There is no limit to what a person can achieve if you put your mind to it.

2. It's never too early to start living your dreams.

3. Gender is not a barrier to achieving your goals, all you need do, is to work hard and follow your dreams.

Thanks for reading.

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