Heather Laube's List: panel disc

• "In so many ways, this all-women's college prepared me to compete in the all-boys' club of presidential politics.... Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it, not now. So let's roll up our sleeves and get to work together. We're ready to shatter that highest glass ceiling."
• Keep in mind: The gender card is always played. It's even played in presidential campaigns where all the candidates are men (o
• rescue card
• What they were missing was a woman to rescue
• So far, the only person who has a lock on rescuing women is the one female candidate

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• we probably got her thanks to the very reasons so many can't abide her: her ambition, her ruthlessness, her gift for triangulation, her marriage, her centrism, her hawkishness. It's an exceedingly uncommon alchemy; in more than two centuries of American history, no woman has been able to break into the presidential boys club, and I can't think of many women of sterling liberal character who would have succeeded where she failed to satisfy all feminists.
• she also pulverized any quaint notions of what presidential races are supposed to look like and how girls might compete in them.
• Clinton behaved with the kind of naked drive and aggression and mercilessness we revere in, for example, football greats, wrestling stars and military heroes.
• But count me as gratified that those who do so will also know they are not responsible for bearing the highest expectations for their gender's morality and politesse, because one hell of a difficult dame has been there before them and knocked everybody around pretty hard.
• old, shrill, humorless and racist
• sheer fun of watching a woman refuse to concede to anyone's expectations.
• Clinton was such a hard-ass that she turned her butchest male critics into the hysterical harpies they accused her of being
• likening her to fictional characters

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