I’m reading Living History at the moment and this is an accurate summation of my life.
3 months ago on February 19, 2013 at 08:37pm
Posts tagged Major Political Girl Crush *salutes*.
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Will Run for President in 2016 – Confirmed ›
“Hillary will be our next President and she will be a great one,” Tsakopoulos said at a private gala in California this past weekend.
Asked if this was confirmed by Clinton or whether it’s his personal view, he replied, “I talk to her husband, and he confirmed it. She will run.”
#GO OUT SIDE #TURN AROUND THREE TIMES #AND SPIT
(via okayophelia)
You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot.
Hillary Clinton
(via caffeinatedfeminist)
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Meryl Streep & Hillary Clinton
HILLARY 2016
6 months ago on November 07, 2012 at 06:21am
Texts From Claudia Jean.
“Hey Hilz, the booze is hidden in the cupboard behind the oak desk for 2016 when you move back in”
“You da the girl CJ”
Secretary Clinton was one of the original Bond girls (uncredited).
Original photograph source unknown.
But I do want to give a shout-out to Angela Merkel and Dilma Rousseff and Portia Miller, Christine Lagarde, who are also on this list and prove once again that you actually can run the world in heels and pantsuits. Because the day is over when women leaders could only aspire to a supporting role. And by the way, I think we may have just found Kristen Wiig’s next movie. She can call it: “Bridesmaids No Longer.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks at the TIME 100 Gala
1 year ago on April 26, 2012 at 02:53am
She sees women, as I have over the course of my career, who are perfectionists and never think anything they do is good enough, and they’re competing against men who think everything they do is star quality…. I could sit here and say, ‘Am I the smartest person to have ever been secretary of state?’ Well, I don’t know. Thomas Jefferson was secretary of state. I have no idea. ‘Was I the smartest person who ever served in the United States Senate?’ Well, you don’t know those things. You can’t ever know them until you actually get out there and try. And it’s the trying that’s the most exciting part of the whole journey.
Hillary Clinton (on whom I have a major political girl crush.)
1 year ago on April 15, 2012 at 10:02pm
Hillary Clinton being (generally) awesome about LGBT rights being Human Rights. ›
The third, and perhaps most challenging, issue arises when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens. This is not unlike the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation. Some people still defend those practices as part of a cultural tradition. But violence toward women isn’t cultural; it’s criminal. Likewise with slavery, what was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.
In each of these cases, we came to learn that no practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. And this holds true for inflicting violence on LGBT people, criminalizing their status or behavior, expelling them from their families and communities, or tacitly or explicitly accepting their killing.
1 year ago on December 06, 2011 at 09:57pm
I’ve never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. I don’t know how you get up in the world every day, doing what I do, if you don’t have some sense of idealism, because you have to believe that as hard as it is, you’re going to prevent the dictator from oppressing his people, you’re going to help to stop the war, you’re going to figure out a way to get clean water to thirsty people and cure kids of disease. And at the same time, I don’t know how you go through the day and expect to be successful without being very hardheaded and realistic. So for me, it’s not an either/or.
Hillary Clinton
