You go girl.
And thank you to my NH neighbors. I tend to be in the minority with my friends and family when it comes to Hillary Clinton. I like her. I’ve seen her speak and she is personable, funny and smart. She’s someone I’d want as a mentor and a friend. She’s also one of those straight A students. Always prepared. Knows more than others. Comes across as scripted and shrill. And so people don’t like her. My peer group, women in their early 40s, think she should have walked out on Bill. They see her ambition overriding her feelings and self-respect.
Well I disagree. And I’ve been disappointed with my peer group for turning their backs on genuine feminist qualities and misunderstanding the importance of the feminist movement to better our lives today and pave the way for our own children. Last night when NH female voters came out in droves, young and old, I jumped for joy.
Gloria Steinem’s editorial I the NYT was so apt, Women Are Never Front Runners. I’d like to think she influenced some New Englander’s yesterday to see the role of gender and race in this political primary campaign. Perhaps it was Hillary showing her vulnerability and exhaustion. I didn’t see the moment replayed in the media but I heard about it. I did say to my husband, who was convinced it was over for her, that perhaps it would benefit her -- that people could see her humanity. I’m sure Steinem wrote her op-ed piece before Hillary’s slip. She wrote: “This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. We have to be able to say: ‘I’m supporting her because she’ll be a great president and because she’s a woman.’”
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