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Hillary Clinton the Tomboy and Her "Ah-Ha" Moment
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ABC News' Kirit Radia reports:
In an appearance at the Women's Museum in Dallas on Friday, a transcript of which was released over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke candidly about the challenges she faced in breaking the glass ceiling, and referenced her run for the presidency last year.
Clinton revealed that she was "sort of a tomboy" when she was a young girl. "I did love to play sports and played with a lot of the boys in my neighborhood," she said. She said the experience instilled a thirst for competition that served her well later.
"I wanted to be a baseball player," she told an amused audience. "I wanted to be a journalist. I know you’ll never believe that."
Clinton the story about her aspirations to be an astronaut, one of her earliest encounters with the glass ceiling.
"I think I was thirteen or so, and so I wrote to NASA to ask how I could become an astronaut. And I got a response back which was, 'We’re not interested in women astronauts,'" she said.
She spoke of the obstacles she faced in pursuing her professional and academic goals.
"When we were growing up, there were just so many overt and implied obstacles to what young women could aspire to. There were certainly schools you couldn’t go to, scholarships you couldn’t apply for - jobs that were not available to you," Clinton said.
"You really have to prepare. And you have to get knocked down, and you have to pick yourself up, and you have to keep going," she added later.
Clinton referenced her lost bid for the Democratic nomination last year. When asked about an "ah-ha" moment that she was going to be able to meet the lofty goals she'd set for herself, Clinton said there was another "ah-ha" moment of another manner.
"I had an ah-ha moment that I wasn’t going to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States," she said as the audience laughed (according to the transcript). "That’s a kind of different ah-ha moment."
March 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (23)
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PGraber, exactly!
Either way, Obama couldn't make it through boot camp. The military is for REAL women, not punks like him who talk about an uncle who "liberated Auschwitz", or "the Vietnam War was over" when he was draft age. BO must be so caught up in his own self importance he doesn't know that Americans have volunteered for service since the Revolutionary War. I guess his Poli-Sci degree didn't require American history. School is supposed to compensate for his total lack of job experience, so what's up with that?
Thankfully women can be more than nurses now as was not the case in the 60's. The Veteran basher, Janet Napolitano, could use some military experience herself.
Posted by: Skyla | May 1, 2009 9:06:42 PM
I think highly of Hillary. She is intelligent, and has much charisma. Three cheers for our Secretary of State! She is doing a wonderful job.
Posted by: Salt spray | May 5, 2009 4:23:46 AM
Hillary Clinton should be President of the United States.
The fact that she is not is our loss, not hers.
The primary debacle was my Ah Ha moment!
Posted by: Gayle | May 5, 2009 9:48:21 PM
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