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What Happened QUOTES

What Happened QUOTES

1 " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

2 " Well-behaved women seldom make history. —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

3 " Something I wish every man across America understood is how much fear accompanies women throughout our lives. So many of us have been threatened or harmed. So many of us have helped friends recover from a traumatic incident. It’s difficult to convey what all this violence does to us. It adds up in our hearts and our nervous systems. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

4 " Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, 'You stay in there. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

5 " In my experience, the balancing act women in politics have to master is challenging at every level, but it gets worse the higher you rise. If we’re too tough, we’re unlikable. If we’re too soft, we’re not cut out for the big leagues. If we work too hard, we’re neglecting our families. If we put family first, we’re not serious about the work. If we have a career but no children, there’s something wrong with us, and vice versa. If we want to compete for a higher office, we’re too ambitious. Can’t we just be happy with what we have? Can’t we leave the higher rungs on the ladder for men? Think how often you’ve heard these words used about women who lead: angry, strident, feisty, difficult, irritable, bossy, brassy, emotional, abrasive, high-maintenance, ambitious (a word that I think of as neutral, even admirable, but clearly isn’t for a lot of people). "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

6 " That was some weird shit,” George W. reportedly said with characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn’t have agreed more. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

7 " One thing I’ve learned over the years is how easy it is for some people to say horrible things about me when I’m not around, but how hard it is for them to look me in the eye and say it to my face. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

8 " My mistakes burn me up inside. But as one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, says, while our mistakes make us want to cry, the world doesn’t need more of that. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

9 " Early on the morning of November 9, when it came time to decide on what I’d say in my concession speech, I remembered those words. Inspired by them, I wrote these: “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

10 " But her emails! —the internet, 2017 "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

11 " You didn’t vote? How could you not vote?! You abdicated your responsibility as a citizen at the worst possible time! And now you want me to make you feel better?” Of course, I didn’t say any of that. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

12 " The Puritan witch hunts may be long over, but something fanatical about unruly women still lurks in our national subconscious. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

13 " You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. . . . You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

14 " It’s up to us to make the choice to be grateful even when things aren’t going well. Nouwen calls that the “discipline of gratitude.” To me, it means not just being grateful for the good things, because that’s easy, but also to be grateful for the hard things too. To be grateful even for our flaws, because in the end, they make us stronger by giving us a chance to reach beyond our grasp. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

15 " Over the years, I’ve hired and promoted a lot of young women and young men. Much of the time, this is how it went: ME: I’d like you to take on a bigger role. YOUNG MAN: I’m thrilled. I’ll do a great job. I won’t let you down. YOUNG WOMAN: Are you sure I’m ready? I’m not sure. Maybe in a year? These reactions aren’t innate. Men aren’t naturally more confident than women. We tell them to believe in themselves, and we tell women to doubt themselves. We tell them this in a million ways, starting when they’re young. We’ve got to do better. Every single one of us. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

16 " I’m not sure how to solve all this. My gender is my gender. My voice is my voice. To quote Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, under FDR, “The accusation that I’m a woman is incontrovertible.” Other women will run for President, and they will be women, and they will have women’s voices. Maybe that will be less unusual by then. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

17 " Joan of Arc said a lot of interesting things before they burned her at the stake. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

18 " My predecessor in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, used to say, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

19 " That which does not kill us makes us stronger. —Friedrich Nietzsche (and Kelly Clarkson) "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened

20 " But too many of Trump’s core supporters do hold views that I find—there’s no other word for it—deplorable. And while I’m sure a lot of Trump supporters had fair and legitimate reasons for their choice, it is an uncomfortable and unavoidable fact that everyone who voted for Donald Trump—all 62,984,825 of them—made the decision to elect a man who bragged about sexual assault, attacked a federal judge for being Mexican and grieving Gold Star parents who were Muslim, and has a long and well-documented history of racial discrimination in his businesses. That doesn’t mean every Trump voter approved of those things, but at a minimum they accepted or overlooked them. And they did it without demanding the basics that Americans used to expect from all presidential candidates, from releasing tax returns to offering substantive policy proposals to upholding common standards of decency. "

― Hillary Rodham Clinton , What Happened