Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

I have never believed that a wife bears responsibility for the actions of her husband.

As my friend Madeleine Albright said, there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

women’s rights are human rights.

When the Republican Party became the party hostile to civil rights, it was inevitable that it would become more anti-democratic.

Instead, this selective, partisan version of Christianity is a naked power grab using religion to impose political control.

But it is anti-democratic and anti-freedom to impose your religious beliefs on everyone else, especially at the expense of other people’s rights and freedoms.

people feel the pain of losses more intensely than the pleasure of gains.

The more time we spend online, the less we interact with each other in person.

The hard truth is that if Republicans won’t stand up to Trump, they can’t stand up to Putin or Xi Jinping.

Even Nikki Haley, Trump’s rival in the primaries, who described him as dangerously “unhinged,” said she would vote for him. So many profiles in cowardice.

As Tubman guided escaped slaves to freedom, she would say: “If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

“human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.”

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

When you’re our age, the thought is always in the back of your mind that you have fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.