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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Substantial Woman of the week - Oprah Winfrey

Who she is

Oprah is a media mogul, talk show host,actress, producer and philanthropist. Best known for her award winning talk show- The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and the most influencial woman on earth.

She has been nominated for 53 awards, including an Oscar and has won 40.

Her Life

Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on the  29 of January, 1954 in Mississippi USA. Oprah was born to a poor teenage-single mother called Vernita Lee and she suffered in abject poverty. After Oprah's birth, her mother traveled north and Winfrey spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grand mother , Hattie Mae Presley Lee, who was so poor that Oprah wore dresses made of potato sacks for which other children made fun of her. She was taught to read and recite bible passages at an early age and was often called "the preacher".

At age six, Oprah moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her mother who was a maid and did not spend much time with Oprah because of her long hours at work.

Later on in life Oprah revealed that she was molested at age nine by a cousin and family friend. She got pregnant at fourteen but the child died in infancy.

Oprah was sent to live with a barber whom she refers to as her father in Tennessee and continued high school. She landed a job in radio and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of nineteen. And from there on she had not looked back but has continued to soar to even greater heights.

Qoutes from Oprah Winfrey

• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

• My philosophy is that doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

•Whatever your dreams, ideas or rejects, we plant a seed, nurture it- then reap the fruits of our labours.

• Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

• The essential question is not," how busy are you?" But, "are you busy at?" "Are you doing what fulfills you?"

Did you know?

That Oprah was named after the Biblical character "Orpah" in the Book of Ruth, but was mispronounced by people as Oprah and it stuck?

Life Lessons

1. Your background does not determine your future and you can be whatever you want to be in life as long as you work hard and well to achieve your goals.

2. No dream is too big for a person to dream.

3. Be the best you can be, no matter how little you think your efforts are today, it might be an inspiration to someone tomorrow.

Thank you for reading, have a lovely Sunday.

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