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“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language,
of silence...”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Fail to plan, plan to fail.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question...”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“It was another example of a phenomenon I call "the talking dog syndrome." Some people are still amazed that any woman (this includes Governors' wives, corporate CEOs, sports stars and rock singers) can hold her own under pressure and be articulate and knowledgeable. The dog can talk!”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“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.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. Easier said than done.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Rumors become the story du jour. And while our past experiences may have seemed like ancient history to us, every detail of our lives was being sifted and combed as if we were some sort of archaeological dig.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions."

"I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“We both had wanted to see a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Yale Art Gallery but, because of a labor dispute, some of the university's buildings, including the museum, were closed. As Bill and I walked by, he decided he could get us in if we offered to pick up the litter that had accumulated in the gallery's courtyard. Watching him talk our way in was the first time I saw his persuasiveness in action. We had the entire museum to ourselves. We wandered through the galleries talking about Rothko and twentieth-century art. I admit to being surprised at his interest in and knowledge of subjects that seemed, at first, unusual for a Viking from Arkansas. We ended up in the museum's courtyard, where I sat in the large lap of Henry Moore's sculpture Drape Seated Woman while we talked until dark.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“The picture of Chelsea and me that flashed around the world showed a happy mother-daughter team perched on our pachyderm and watching a rare Asian rhino. Later, when we got back to Washington, James Carville remarked: “Don’t you just love it? You spent two years trying to get people better health care and they tried to kill you. You and Chelsea rode an elephant, and they loved you!”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“On Jackie Kennedy’s historic tour of India and Pakistan in 1962, she was photographed wearing sleeveless shifts and knee-length skirts—not to mention a midriff-baring sari that caused an international sensation. Public opinion seemed to have grown more conservative in South Asia since then.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Their successes in our country illustrated the importance of a well-functioning non-corrupt government, a free market, a society that values individuals, including girls and women, a culture that tolerates all religious traditions and an environment free of violence and war. No country in South Asia has yet achieved”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Bhutto acknowledged the difficulties faced by women who were breaking with tradition and taking leading roles in public life. She deftly managed to refer both to the challenges I had encountered during my White House tenure and to her own situation. “Women who take on tough issues and stake out new territory are often on the receiving end of ignorance,” she concluded. In a private meeting with the Prime Minister, we talked about her upcoming visit to Washington in April, and I spent time with her husband and their children. Because I had heard that their marriage was arranged, I found their interaction particularly interesting.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“The contradictions within Pakistan became still more apparent at my next event, a luncheon hosted in my honor by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and attended by several dozen accomplished women in Pakistan. It was like being rocketed forward several centuries in time. Among these women were academics and activists, as well as a pilot, a singer, a banker and a police deputy superintendent. They had their own ambitions and careers, and, of course, we were all guests of Pakistan’s elected female leader. Benazir”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“When I got to know Mandela better, he explained that as a young man he had a quick temper. In prison he learned to control his emotions in order to survive. His years in jail had given him the time and motivation to look deeply into his own heart and to deal with the pain he found. He reminded me that gratitude and forgiveness, which often result from pain and suffering, require tremendous discipline. The day his imprisonment ended, he told me, “as I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Mandela’s speech denounced discrimination on the basis of race and gender, two profoundly embedded prejudices in Africa and most of the rest of the world. As we were leaving the ceremony, I saw the Rev. Jesse Jackson weeping with joy. He leaned over and said to me, “Did you ever think any of us would live to see this day?”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Fear is always with us, but we just don’t have time for it. Not now.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“In the years ahead we would have rough patches, but we were determined to get through them.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
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Leena Nivala, Living History
“Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It happens; or it does not happen.
Grace happens... (not attributed to her, just where I saw it)”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“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. (quote not attributed to her, just where I saw it)”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“The nomination of Richard Nixon cemented the ascendance of a conservative over a moderate ideology within the Republican Party, a dominance that has only grown more pronounced over the years as the party has continued its move to the right and moderates have dwindled in numbers and influence. I sometimes think that I didn’t leave the Republican Party as much as it left me. I”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

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